Tag: Biology

Credit: University of Otago University of Otago researchers have discovered how viruses that specifically kill bacteria can outwit bacteria by ...

Muscle weakness after sepsis linked to mitochondrial dysfunction

New findings may explain why humans experience muscle weakness after sepsis recovery, and suggest the need for novel treatments to ...

Could dark carbon be hiding the true scale of ocean ‘dead zones’?

Credit: Sabine Lengger, University of Plymouth Dead zones within the world's oceans - where there is almost no oxygen to ...

Clemson geneticists identify small molecules that are potential indicators for disease

Credit: Clemson University College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - A critical question in medicine asks how individual variation in ...

Using human bone remains to study predictable, postmortem microbes

$1.2 million from National Institutes of Justice to fund the workCredit: Colorado State University It's one of the most salient ...

Review Commons, a pre-journal portable review platform

Credit: EMBO / Pauline Marchetti Washington DC, 9 December 2019 - Today ASAPbio and EMBO Press launch Review Commons, a ...

Researchers find some forests crucial for climate change mitigation, biodiversity

Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A study by Oregon State University researchers has identified forests in the western ...

Megadroughts fueled Peruvian cloud forest activity

Sediment samples show recovery from some ecosystem damage possibleCredit: Florida Tech MELBOURNE, FLA. -- New research led by scientists from ...

New bone healing mechanism has potential therapeutic applications

Credit: Cell Stem Cell/the Park lab Led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, a study published in the journal ...

Regional trends in overdose deaths reveal multiple opioid epidemics, according to new study

Credit: David Peters AMES, Iowa - The United States is suffering from several different simultaneous opioid epidemics, rather than just ...

What can we learn from bonobos and chimpanzees?

A personal account of bonobo and chimpanzee behaviour by a renowned Japanese primatologist explains what and why we should learn ...

New function for plant enzyme could lead to green chemistry

Discovery may inspire development of better industrial catalystsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven ...

Storing data in everyday objects

Credit: ETH Zurich / Julian Koch Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA. ...

Increasing food intake by swapping mitochondrial genomes

Credit: Maria Litovchenko & Roel Bevers (EPFL) Many of the characteristics that make people so different from each other, are ...

Predicting a protein’s behavior from its appearance

Credit: Laura Persat / 2019 EPFL Proteins are the building blocks of life and play a key role in all ...

How playing the drums changes the brain

Many years of playing the instrument leave clear tracesCredit: RUB, Marquard People who play drums regularly for years differ from ...

NTU scientists uncover structure of key pneumonia virus enzyme

Credit: NTU Singapore A team of molecular and structural biologists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a ...

Corals survive to tell the tale of Earth’s newest island eruption

Credit: Tom Bridge Scientists say coral reefs on a tiny island in the South Pacific have shown incredible resilience and ...

A sustainable new material for carbon dioxide capture

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology In a joint research study from Sweden, scientists from Chalmers University of Technology and ...

Gold Medal: TU Dresden team presents DipGene at Synthetic Biology’s largest innovation event