Tag: Biology

Credit: University of Groningen Combining natural salt marsh habitats with conventional dikes may provide a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative ...

People who have had dengue are twice as likely to develop symptomatic COVID-19

This is the main finding of a study.The authors analyzed blood samples collected in a town in the Brazilian Amazon ...

The importance of DNA compaction in tissue formation

Credit: IRB Barcelona Scientists led by Dr. Salvador Aznar-Benitah, head of the Stem Cells and Cancer laboratory at IRB Barcelona, ...

Of mice and men: Mutation linked to autism impairs oxytocin-mediated social behavior

Mutations associated with autism can inhibit the release of the bonding hormone oxytocin and cause abnormal social behavior in miceCredit: ...

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announces 2021 graduate fellows

Credit: Fannie and John Hertz Foundation The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the most ...

Modular photoswitch cpLOV2 developed for optogenetic engineering

Credit: ZHU Lei Recently, Prof. WANG Junfeng from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science ...

When one become two: Separating DNA for more accurate nanopore analysis

Credit: Earlham Institute A new software tool developed by Earlham Institute researchers will help bioinformaticians improve the quality and accuracy ...

Oregon State research shows why some pockets of conifer survive repeated forest fires

Credit: Will Downing, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers say "topographic templates" can help forest conservation managers develop ...

Colonization of the Antilles by South American fauna: Giant sunken islands as a passageway

Credit: © Cornée et al. Fossils of land animals from South America have been found in the Antilles, but how ...

How x-rays could make reliable, rapid COVID-19 tests a reality

An imaging technique pioneered by Berkeley Lab is helping reveal the best antibodies for COVID-19 detectionCredit: (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Vaccines ...

Epigenetics study draws link between hatchery conditions and steelhead trout fitness

Credit: Photo by WSU Photo Services PULLMAN, Wash. - Alterations in the epigenetic programming of hatchery-raised steelhead trout could account ...

Synaptic transmission: Not a one-way street

Key synapse acts as a "smart teacher", sending messages against the usual flow of information in the brain. - Paper ...

How to become ‘ant-i-social’

Study shows erosion of ant genome tied to loss of functional, behavioral and social traits in 3 inquiline speciesCredit: Martin ...

Deep Longevity announces partnership with LifeHub & LifeClinic in Hong Kong

Deep Longevity adds LifeHub & LifeClinic to its growing longevity network. LifeClinic physicians have been trained in longevity medicine to ...

Linguistic and biological diversity linked

Credit: Larry Gorenflo, Penn State Cultural diversity -- indicated by linguistic diversity -- and biodiversity are linked, and their connection ...

Scientists shed light on the mechanism of photoactivation of the orange carotenoid protein

Biochemists from the Federal Research Centre of Biotechnology RAS and their international colleagues have deciphered an activation mechanism of the ...

Fundamental mechanism discovered that fine-tunes gene expression & is disrupted in cancer

Study reveals a novel mechanism that can be targeted for cancer therapy and is mediated by the Integrator transcriptional complexCredit: ...

Slow research to understand fast change

Forty years of experiments, observation, modeling and theory may be just what's needed to see where the world is headedCredit: ...

New technology makes tumor eliminate itself

Credit: Plückthun Lab A new technology developed by UZH researchers enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at ...

Bird data from Ethiopia fills in baseline data gaps