Scientists predict the areas of the brain to stimulate transitions between different brain states
Using a computer model of the brain, scientists have developed an innovative method published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Tag: Biology
MIT sets out to model Alzheimer’s disease complexity on a chip
Credit: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in ...
Confronting colony collapse
Scientists sequence the genomes of the parasitic mites harming the world's beesCredit: OIST Honey bee colony collapse has devastating consequences ...
Supercomputing, neutrons unite to unravel structures of intrinsically disordered protein
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Using the Titan supercomputer and the Spallation Neutron Source at the ...
Targeting regulator of mitochondrial cell death delivers anticancer activity
Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 3, 2019) -- A novel anticancer molecule created by researchers at The Wistar ...
U of G researchers discover potential drug to treat heart attacks
A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure -- for which no cure currently exists -- ...
The phenological index
A tool to understand how ecosystems are responding to a changing climateCredit: Love et al., 2019 As climate change accelerates, ...
Machine learning predicts behavior of biological circuits
Neural networks cut modeling times of complex biological circuits to enable new insights into their inner workingsCredit: Lingchong You, Duke ...
Mutant cells team up to make an even deadlier blood cancer
Credit: Krainer lab/CSHL, 2019 Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor ...
Besides hot water, coral bleaching also about location, location, location
Study in Nature Climate Change analyzed many factors that led to widespread coral bleaching in Indo-Pacific during 2016 El NiñoCredit: ...
Seagrass meadows harbor wildlife for centuries, highlighting need for conservation
Credit: Conor MacDonnell Seagrass meadows put down deep roots, persisting in the same spot for hundreds and possibly thousands of ...
Hovering closer to the secrets of hummingbird flight
Credit: Todd Goodrich, University of Montana The extraordinary ability of hummingbirds to perform complex escape maneuvers will be explored for ...
Plant diversity a casualty of high-severity wildfires
Extreme wildfires are transforming forestlands into shrublandsCredit: Courtesy Clark Richter Sierra Nevada forests are losing plant diversity due to high-severity ...
Stanford-made exhibit plunges people in the world of microbes
Credit: ©Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu Wandering through the exhibits of the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco in spring 2018, visitors had ...
Fossil fish gives new insights into the evolution
'An experiment of nature' after the end-Cretaceous mass extinctionCredit: © Giuseppe Marramà An international research team led by Giuseppe Marramà ...
Species could buffer reproduction against climate change through sperm and egg plasticity
Credit: University of East Anglia Beetles have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to reproduce despite warmer temperatures - according to new research ...
Inspired by Northern clingfish, researchers make a better suction cup
Credit: Petra Ditsche The finger-sized Northern clingfish employs one of the best suction cups in the world. A small disk ...
Why are there no animals with three legs?
Credit: Tracy J. Thomson in BioEssays If "Why?" is the first question in science, "Why not?" must be a close ...
Preventing future forest diebacks
Credit: Simon Thorn / University of Wuerzburg Bark beetles, heat, drought, storms, and fires have damaged the German forests. Those ...
Ancient genomes provide insight into the genetic history of the second plague pandemic
Analysis of 34 ancient plague genomes from the Black Death and succeeding plague epidemics in Europe between the 14th and ...
