16-million-year-old fossil shows springtails hitchhiking on winged termite
Credit: N. Robin, C. D'Haese and P. Barden When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that ...
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Hops compounds help with metabolic syndrome while reducing microbiome diversity
Credit: (Photo courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Compounds from hops may combat metabolic syndrome by changing the ...
How mantis shrimp make sense of the world
Researchers traced neural connections in a newly discovered brain region of mantis shrimp, gaining new insights into how the fierce ...
Downstream signaling: Cilia release ectosomes to deliver important messages in the kidney
Cilia play critical roles in sending and receiving signals from distant sites through mechano- and chemosensation and now through small ...
Level up your Thanksgiving potatoes with this simple ingredient (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2019 -- Making delicious roasted potatoes is all about finding the right ...
Fish size affects snake river salmon returns more than route through dams
Research suggests juvenile bypass systems do not affect later ocean survivalCredit: Ritchie Graves/NOAA Fisheries The survival and eventual return of ...
A monkey’s balancing act
How species in the wild are managing the risks and rewards of sharing space with humansCredit: University of Lincoln The ...
Effective method for correcting various CNS pathologies developing under oxygen deficiency
Scientists from Russia and Germany examined the role of neuronal kinome representatives in the implementation of adaptation mechanisms of the ...
Professors Kam Leong and Elisa Konofagou Win $3.2 million NIH award to advance genome editing
A team led by biomedical engineer Kam Leong has been awarded $3.2 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...
Study tracks genomic changes that reinforce darter speciation
Credit: Photo by Lance Merry CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- When they share habitat, orangethroat and rainbow darters tend to avoid one ...
Konstanz-based CRC 969 to receive additional funding
Credit: University of Konstanz The Konstanz-based research in the area of cellular proteostasis will receive funding in the amount of ...
Aquatic microorganisms offer important window on the history of life
The graphic shows a tree of life for complex forms known as Eukaryotes, that arose mysteriously around 1.2-2 billions years ...
Climate change is reshaping communities of ocean organisms
Warm-water species are rapidly increasing and cold-water species are decreasingCredit: Claire Fackler/CINMS, NOAA Climate change is reshaping communities of fish ...
Scientists develop electrochemical platform for cell-free synthetic biology
The direct gene circuit to electrode interface unites biology's ability to sense with the memory and decision-making capabilities of electronic ...
The nature of salmonella is changing — and it’s meaner
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Salmonella is acting up in Michigan, and it could be a model ...
Sant Joan de Deu and Clinic with UPF create a surgical navigation system for fetal surgery
A team of professionals from BCNatal, in collaboration with the team of Miguel A. González Ballester, ICREA research professor of ...
The ‘Signal Cell’ relaying microbiota signals discovered
Credit: POHANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (POSTECH) Microorganisms are considered as dirty organism that threaten our health, decay food ...
Babies in the womb may see more than we thought
Light-sensitive cells in immature retina are networked, suggesting bigger role in developing brainCredit: Image by Franklin Caval-Holme, UC Berkeley By ...
Bacteria-infecting viruses bind mucosal surface and protect from disease
Credit: Credit: Gabriel Almeida/University of Jyväskylä Mucosal surfaces protect organisms from external stressors and disease. Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, ...
How does the prion protein clump? DNA-modulated liquid droplets may explain
Brazilian scientists have found that prion proteins form liquid droplets that can turn into a solid and toxic state, and ...
