Tag: Biology

Credit: Lysanne Snijders For male Trinidad Guppies applies: if you are hungry, seek female company. A recent study led by ...

Texas Biomed researchers pinpoint why HIV patients are more likely to develop tuberculosis

Discovery could lead to new added therapy for HIV patientsCredit: Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (September 11, 2019) ...

Diet impacts the sensitivity of gut microbiome to antibiotics, mouse study finds

Credit: Belenky Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Antibiotics save countless lives each year from harmful bacterial infections -- ...

Multidrug resistance: Not as recent as we thought

Researchers from Osaka University find that a relatively ancient drug efflux pump in Haemophilus influenzae confers resistance to the same ...

Ancient Australia was home to strange marsupial giants, some weighing over 1,000 kg

Extinct palorchestid marsupials likely filled a niche no longer occupied in modern AustraliaCredit: Hazel Richards (2019) Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct ...

Children’s Tumor Foundation hosts NF Innovation Week in San Francisco

Researchers, clinicians, data scientists, patients and caregivers convene to fast-track cures for the rare disorder neurofibromatosis Neurofibromatosis (NF), a genetic ...

Tiny bubbles in our body could fight cancer better than chemo

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Healthy cells in our body release nano-sized bubbles that transfer genetic material such as DNA and ...

Scientists find clue to ‘maternal instinct’

Credit: Ryoichi Teruyama, LSU Oxytocin is widely referred to as the love hormone and plays an important role in the ...

Trapping female mosquitoes helps curb chikungunya virus

Credit: Tyler M. Sharp (CC BY 4.0) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently developed an Autocidal ...

Strange bacteria hint at ancient origin of photosynthesis

Structures inside rare bacteria are similar to those that power photosynthesis in plants today, suggesting the process is older than ...

Preventing people from abandoning exotic pets that threatened biodiversity

From buying impulsively to abandoning exotic petsCredit: Amphibians and Reptiles Recovery Centre of Catalonia (CRARC), Abandoning exotic pets is an ...

Molecular biophysics — the ABC of ribosome recycling

Ribosomes, the essential machinery used for protein synthesis is recycled after each one round of translation. An enzyme called ABCE1 ...

The positive and negative role of LRH-1 during inflammation

Credit: Thomas Brunner Immune cells prevent bacteria, parasites or viruses from entering the body when, for example, the intestinal epithelium ...

Physics of life: Motor proteins and membrane dynamics

Motility is an essential property of many cell types, and is driven by molecular motors. A Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU)in M has ...

Bacteria enhance coral resilience to climate change effects

Credit: Anna Roik Coral reefs are delicate ecosystems that are particularly sensitive to human influences such as climate change and ...

How neuromuscular connections are maintained after nerve lesions

Credit: (Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum) After nerve injury, the protein complex mTORC1 takes over an important function in skeletal ...

One or the other: Why strength training might come at the expense of endurance muscles

Credit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum The neurotransmitter brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) acts in the muscle, so that during strength ...

Transforming biology to design next-generation computers, using a surprise ingredient

Purdue University researchers turned to biology to help in the design of next-generation computersCredit: Purdue University/Shelley Claridge WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ...

HIV spreads through direct cell-to-cell contact

Researchers investigate infection dynamics in tissue-like three-dimensional cell culturesCredit: Oliver Fackler / Frederik Graw The spread of pathogens like the ...

Worm pheromones protect major crops