Tag: Biology

A whole brain imaging study finds that excess grey matter, the darker tissue of the brain, can predict escalating drinking ...

Synthesizing chemical-sensing cells from scratch

Credit: OIST Baking a cake from scratch is a task deemed difficult for many. Constructing an artificial cell-like system from ...

Bionic catalysts to produce clean energy

Human Frontier Science Program awards Michael Hall the 2019 HFSP Nakasone Award

HFSP Nakasone Award The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) has announced that its 2019 HFSP Nakasone Award will be awarded ...

Trendy on eight legs: Jumping spider named after fashion czar Karl Lagerfeld

Credit: Robert Whyte (Jotus fortiniae sp. nov., top row) and Michael Doe (unidentified species, bottom row), CeNak. New to science ...

Airless worms: A new hope against drug-resistant parasites

By targeting an unusual offshoot of worm metabolism, researchers seek to fight a major global health problemCredit: WikiMedia Commons Over ...

Harnessing reliability for neuroscience research

The neuroimaging community has made significant strides towards collecting large-scale neuroimaging datasets, which--until the past decade--had seemed out of reach. ...

CCNY experts in lateralization of speech publish discovery

City College of New York-led researchers have published a breakthrough in understanding previously unknown inner workings related to the lateralization ...

Yellow fever virus responsible for current epidemic in Brazil originated in Amazon in 1980

Researchers have retraced the pathogen's route as it spread from the state of Pará by analyzing tissue samples from dead ...

Analysis finds US ecosystems shifting hundreds of miles north

Credit: Craig Chandler/University Communication/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Whole ecosystems are shifting dramatically north in the Great Plains, a phenomenon likely linked ...

Scientists track the source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain

Scientists have identified mechanisms in the human brain that could help explain the phenomenon of the 'Uncanny Valley' - the ...

‘Gentle recovery’ of Brazil’s leatherback turtles

Credit: Banco de Imagens Projeto TAMAR Brazil's leatherback turtles are making a "gentle recovery" after 30 years of conservation efforts, ...

Study finds electronic cigarettes damage brain stem cells

UC Riverside research on mouse neural stem cells has implications for nicotine useCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- ...

Researchers discover genetic mutation behind serious skull disorder

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A collaboration led by scientists at Oregon State University, the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom ...

Scissors get stuck — another way bacteria use CRISPR/Cas9

Cas9 represses gene activity, important for virulence In biotech these days, CRISPR/Cas9 is a hot topic, because of its utility ...

Transformer cells: Shaping cellular ‘behaviour’

Scientists listed the most promising technologies in cell therapy Scientists from the Sechenov University, conjointly with their fellow Chinese and ...

$3.1 million NIH grant given to create universal flu vaccine

Credit: Virginia Tech In the race to create a universal flu vaccine not dependent on predicting strains of flu, the ...

Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago

Credit: University of Plymouth The ocean as we understand it today was shaped by a global evolutionary regime shift around ...

Coupled proteins

How human cells react to external signals and further process themCredit: © Thomas Splettstoesser (www.sci-style.com) Researchers from Heidelberg University and ...

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