In Baltimore, lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes
Larger mosquitoes better at transmitting disease, put residents at riskCredit: CDC (Millbrook, NY) Low-income urban neighborhoods not only have more ...
Tag: Biology
Researchers uncover novel virus type that may shed light on viral evolution
Credit: FIGURE ADAPTED FROM Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 75 (2019) 103975. © 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. Viruses are non-living ...
Two new porcelain crab species discovered
Credit: T. Britayev and D. Martin Two new porcelain crab species have been described in the ZooKeys journal by scientists ...
Protein that triggers plant defences to light stress identified
To protect against damage from excess light, a newly identified protein triggers a defence mechanism in plant cellsCredit: Silvia Ramundo ...
Peeping into the black box of AI to discover how collective behaviors emerge
Credit: Gil Costa How do the stunningly intricate patterns created by schools of fish emerge? For many scientists, this question ...
Natural loss of foot muscle in rodents shares mechanisms often associated with disease and injury
New discovery around the evolutionary loss of foot muscles in the lesser Egyptian jerboa challenges expectations of how developmental tissue ...
Tiny droplets allow bacteria to survive daytime dryness on leaves
Bacteria on the surface of leaves survive dryness during the day by huddling in tiny droplets -- a finding that ...
Piranha fish swap old teeth for new simultaneously
Credit: University of Washington Piranha fish have a powerful bite. Their teeth help them shred through the flesh of their ...
Cell family trees tracked to discover their role in tissue scarring and liver disease
Credit: Image created by Lana Woolford, CIR Public Engagement & Communications Officer Researchers have discovered that a key cell type ...
Synthetic cells make long-distance calls
Rice scientists' circuits help bacteria quickly pass signals to an entire communityCredit: Courtesy of The Bennett Lab/Nature Chemical Biology HOUSTON ...
DNA fracturing rewires gene control in cancer
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Understanding the mechanisms that mediate widespread DNA damage in the cancer genome is of great ...
New class of drugs could stop cancers developing treatment resistance
Credit: Worldwide Cancer Research Scientists at Massey University in New Zealand have taken the first step towards a new class ...
Gene mutation in the chloride channel triggers rare high blood pressure syndrome
Credit: Audrey H. Soria, FMP When the adrenal gland produces too much aldosterone, this often leads to high blood pressure ...
Monkeys can also thank their body for vocal development, not only their brain
Credit: University of Southern Denmark Normally we think about the brain as an all-controlling organ that guides the development of ...
Tissue damage caused by a heart attack to be reduced by 30%?
Scientists from the Universities of Geneva and Lyon have discovered which molecule is held responsible for tissue necrosis due to ...
New journal to explore the ‘mysterious ecosystem’ in our gut
Credit: Cambridge University Press/Nutrition Society A new open access journal from Cambridge University Press, published in partnership with The Nutrition ...
How to enable light to switch on and off therapeutic antibodies
The split-rejoin technique allows optobody, a novel optogenetic tool to fine-tune the activation of antibodiesCredit: IBS When antigens such as ...
Researchers describe a survival strategy in living corals which was only seen in fossil records
Heatwaves in the MediterraneanCredit: Diego Kersting Some corals can recover after massive mortality episodes caused by the water temperature rise. ...
Allen Institute debuts new window into brain cell communication
Coupled with new research on brain cell types and connections, these data allow the scientific community to explore questions about ...
Making conservation ‘contagious’
Credit: The University of Queensland New research reveals conservation initiatives often spread like disease, a fact which can help scientists ...
