Tag: Biology

May 13, 2021

Iconic great apes in Borneo lost muscle during fruit shortagesCredit: Kristana Parinters Makur/Tuanan Orangutan Research Project Wild orangutans are known ...

How the body builds a healthy relationship with ‘good’ gut bacteria

Credit: François-Joseph Lapointe, Université de Montréal Our body's relationship with bacteria is complex. While infectious bacteria can cause illness, our ...

UCLA scientists decode the ‘language’ of immune cells

The advance, researchers say, is like the discovery of the Rosetta stone and could eventually lead to new treatments for ...

Scientists use genetic engineering to explore mechanisms involved in psychiatric disorders

The research group created a virus capable of acting on specific adult brain regions, helping to elucidate the role of ...

Kefir packs less of a probiotic punch than labels claim

Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Gut health is having a moment, with sales of fermented ...

Giant sea lizard fossil shows diversity of life before asteroid hit

Credit: Andrey Atuchin A giant mosasaur from the end of the Cretaceous period in Morocco that could have reached up ...

Xerocrassa montserratensis, an endemic and threatened snail in Catalonia

The genetic structure of the land snail identified in the late 19th century in the Montserrat mountainCredit: Vicenç Bros A ...

20 days later — The short story about muscles regeneration

Credit: Source: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Skeletal muscles make a tremendous variety of actions stabilizing the body in different positions. ...

Research team investigates causes of tuberous sclerosis

Mutations can disrupt protein binding through a "burr effect" thus interfering with the regulation of cell growthCredit: Kümmel team/Oeckinghaus team ...

Polypharmakos and CABI to develop new antimicrobial products from CABI Culture Collection

Polypharmakos Limited, a spin-out company from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and University of Cambridge, and international not-for-profit organisation CABI ...

An enzyme system for the hydrogen industry

Platinum-free biocatalyst for fuel cells and water electrolysisCredit: Dr. James Birrell / MPI CEC An enzyme could make a dream ...

Untangling the brain: new research offers hope for Alzheimer’s disease

Credit: Shireen Dooling for the Biodesign Institute at ASU Since the discovery of Alzheimer's disease over a century ago, two ...

Engineered bacteria show promise for sustainable biofuel industry, researchers say

Credit: Yutaka Nakashimada, Hiroshima University Acetone, a volatile solvent used for everything from removing nail polish and cleaning textiles to ...

What does your voice say about you?

International research team led by Göttingen University investigates links between personality and vocal characteristicsCredit: Paula Bange Everyone has at some ...

CNIO researchers discover the cause of neuronal death in a large proportion of familial ALS patients

Credit: CNIO In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the progressive death of neurons that control body movement leads to paralysis of ...

Southern African dinosaur had irregular growth

Credit: Dorling Kindersley Anyone who's raised a child or a pet will know just how fast and how steady their ...

History of giants in the gene: Scientists use DNA to trace the origins of giant viruses

Scientists investigate the evolution of Mimivirus, one of the world's largest viruses, through how they replicate DNACredit: Indian Institute of ...

Gene editing expands to new types of immune cells

Gladstone researchers fine-tuned CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to work on human immune cells called monocytesCredit: Photo: Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes In the ...

Rooting the bacterial tree of life

Credit: The University of Queensland Scientists now better understand early bacterial evolution, thanks to new research featuring University of Queensland ...

Rules of the road: the navigational ‘strategies’ of bacteria in motion