Tag: Biology

Credit: Tuveson lab/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cancer cells use a bizarre strategy to reproduce in a tumor's low-energy ...

Researchers clock DNA’s recovery time after chemotherapy

In the time it takes for an Amazon Prime delivery to arrive, cells damaged by chemotherapy can almost completely fix ...

How to protect corals facing climate change

Conserving a wide range of coral habitats is the best strategyCredit: Michelle Stuart/Rutgers University-New Brunswick The best way to protect ...

Researchers identify new way to make cancer self-destruct

Penn study finds blocking the ATF4 gene causes tumors to die from too much stressCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - For ...

Three-dimensional model illuminates key aspects of early development

Credit: Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology at The Rockefeller University From a biological standpoint, the earliest stages ...

Charity invests £1 million to develop a treatment to slow down progression of Parkinson’s

Parkinson's UK have partnered with NRG Therapeutics to find a drug that could protect dopamine cells damaged by the condition ...

Mutation discovery leads to precise treatment for child with severe lymphatic disorder

CHOP researchers: A repurposed drug reshapes anatomy, brings dramatic clinical improvementCredit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, July 1, 2019—Faced with ...

New metalloenzyme-based system allows selective targeting of cancer cells

RIKEN researchers have developed a promising method to deliver a drug to cancer cells without affecting surrounding tissues, involving a ...

Scientists identify interactions that stabilize a neurodegeneration-associated protein

Understanding the normal molecular interactions could aid in the development of therapeutics to prevent the formation of clumps associated with ...

Pharmaconutrition — Modern drug design for functional studies

Bitter (taste) receptor with health effect?Credit: Dr. Antonella Di Pizio / Leibniz-LSB@TUM Antonella Di Pizio and Maik Behrens of the ...

Scientists alarmed by bark beetle boom

Credit: Rainer Simonis / Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald "Bark beetles lay waste to forests" - "Climate change sends beetles into overdrive" ...

Well-meaning climate measures can make matters worse

Lifestyle changes can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and help protect nature. While some actions offer great potential, some aren't ...

Environmentally friendly control of common disease infecting fish and amphibians

Credit: Kostis Apostolakis Aquatic organisms in marine systems and freshwaters are threatened by fungal and fungal-like diseases globally. These pathogens ...

Genomic warning flag just in time for beach season: Jellyfish toxins

Genome sequence data from three jellyfish species reveal evolutionary mechanisms of unique jellyfish traits and venomous toxinsCredit: Allen Collins An ...

Nonnative pear trees are showing up in US forests

Once a suburban favorite, Callery pear trees are now outcompeting many local trees, a biologist warnsCredit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative ...

Amphibians infected by ranavirus found in Atlantic rain forest

Ranavirus is linked to amphibian decline or extinction in other parts of the world, but in Brazil, it has been ...

An improved vaccine for bacterial meningitis and bloodstream infections

Washington, DC - June 18, 2019 - Researchers have now developed a new vaccine, a native outer membrane vesicle (NOMV) ...

Embracing bioinformatics in gene banks

The shift from Germplasm Collections towards bio-digital resource centresCredit: Regina Devrient / IPK Gatersleben The preservation of plant biodiversity is ...

Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative taps Joslin researchers for Human Cell Atlas project

Human Cell Atlas (HCA) is a scientist-led, international effort to map all cells in the human body BOSTON - (June ...

Two-in-one drug combining Herceptin with chemotherapy keeps women’s breast cancers at bay