Tag: Biology

Credit: Nguyen and Camci-Unal/Trends in Biotechnology As the global demand for tissue and organ transplants significantly outstrips supply, tissue engineering ...

Tailored ‘cell sheets’ to improve post-operative wound closing and healing

Credit: Yokohama National University Scientists have designed a new method for post-operative wound closing and healing that is both fast ...

The life aquatic made clear with freshwater lens

Researcher finds way to view marine life in murky watersCredit: Swansea University A Swansea University doctoral student has found a ...

Heart cells respond to heart attack and increase the chance of survival

Cells adjacent to injured areas within the heart sense the damage and ensure immediate survival and could be exploited to ...

Guppies teach us why evolution happens

Places, not predators, are evolution catalystsCredit: David Reznick / UCR Guppies, a perennial pet store favorite, have helped a UC ...

Researchers develop thermo-responsive protein hydrogel

NYU Tandon-led team crosses barrier needed to deliver drugs at the cellular level and to engineer tissueCredit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, ...

Fruit flies’ microbiomes shape their evolution

Biologists from the School of Arts and Sciences observed distinct shifts in the genomes of fruit flies fed different bacterial ...

Pitt receives $10 million to boost racial and ethnic diversity in STEM

The grant will create a network of precollege programs with accreditation standards to boost college enrollment for underrepresented studentsCredit: John ...

Genomic migration analysis shows antibiotic resistance moving from humans to animals

Credit: Clemson College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - A Clemson University professor's research has documented the movement of antibiotic ...

Youth activism is on the rise around the globe, says author

On the eve of the Sept. 20 youth-led climate strike, author says the wave of activism has been building for ...

North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them

Study showed haddock larvae orient to the northwest at seaCredit: Alessandro Cresci MIAMI--A new study found that the larvae of ...

Every step a cell takes, every move they make — scientists will be watching

Scientists have created a novel two-layer microchip to track individual developmental changes in stem cells over longer time periodsCredit: Ben-Yakar ...

Studying drivers behind cardiac arrhythmias

Visualizing electrical patterns underlying abnormal heart contractions and deformationsCredit: University Medical Center Göttingen WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2019 -- Despite ...

Did microbes assist life in colonizing land?

Comparative microbiome study enables researchers of the Kiel based CRC 1182 to gain new insights into the course of evolutionCredit: ...

Not the hairstyle, but the content: Hair indicates whether wild animals were ‘stressed’

Credit: Artemy Voikhansky, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55825509 While hair analysis has become routine in humans - for example for the detection of prolonged ...

Gene editing enables researchers to correct mutation in muscle stem cells in DMD model

Correction of mutation in muscle stem cells with CRISPR editing may pave the way for lifelong treatments for muscular dystrophyCredit: ...

A Matter of concentration

Credit: Photo: Thomas Kunz Plants can grow whole new organs with the help of pluripotent stem cells throughout their entire ...

New study measures how much of corals’ nutrition comes from hunting

Credit: Photo courtesy of Brian Zgliczynski When it comes to feeding, corals have a few tricks up their sleeve. Most ...

Study gives clues to the origin of Huntington’s disease, and a new way to find drugs

Credit: Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology at The Rockefeller University The first signs of Huntington's, an inherited ...

Mutant live attenuated Ebola virus immunizes non-human primates