Take two E. coli and call me in the morning
Synthetic bacterial memory circuits enable microbial diagnostics for sensing biomolecules in the gut Millions of people take capsules of probiotics ...
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Botox cousin can reduce malaria in an environmentally friendly way
Credit: Geoffrey Masuyer/Stockholm University Researchers at the universities in Stockholm and Lund, in collaboration with researchers from the University of ...
When the dinosaurs died, lichens thrived
Mass extinction hurt land plants, but DNA shows that some fungus/plant combo organisms rose upCredit: (c) JP Huang When an ...
Going the distance: Brain cells for 3D vision discovered
Neurons in insect brains that compute 3D distance and direction foundCredit: Newcastle University, UK In stunning images captured under the ...
Controlling deadly malaria without chemicals
UCR identifies new tool to kill mosquitoesCredit: Jim Gathany/CDC Scientists have finally found malaria's Achilles' heel, a neurotoxin that isn't ...
Sea slugs use algae’s bacterial ‘weapons factory’ in three-way symbiotic relationship
Credit: Mohamed Donia, Princeton University Delicate yet voracious, the sea slug Elysia rufescens grazes cow-like on bright green tufts of ...
NJIT conducts the largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon spill
Credit: NJIT In a 600-ft.-long saltwater wave tank on the coast of New Jersey, a team of New Jersey Institute ...
New method reveals how well TB antibiotics reach their targets
Credit: Daniel Greenwood, Francis Crick Institute. Scientists have developed a new technique that enables them to visualise how well antibiotics ...
New research raises prospect of better anti-obesity drugs
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at The Rockefeller University Effective weight-loss strategies call for eating less food, burning more calories--or ...
Model predicts bat species with the potential to spread deadly Nipah virus in India
Findings can help guide surveillance and prevent deadly outbreaksCredit: Rajib Islam (Millbrook, NY) Since its discovery in 1999, Nipah virus ...
Deciphering how the brain encodes color and shape
Salk study reveals how the brain processes the external world using overlapping visual circuitsCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 27, 2019) ...
Reducing delays in identifying visceral leishmaniasis
Women in Indian states with endemic visceral leishmaniasis - also known as Kala Azar - should be encouraged to seek ...
How inhaled fungal spores cause fatal meningitis
Credit: Walsh NM, et al. (2019) Pathogenic fungal spores capitalize on host immune cells to escape the lung and gain ...
New AI tool captures top players’ strategies in RNA video game
Neural network approach could aid efforts to build biomedically useful RNA structuresCredit: Koodli et al. A new artificial-intelligence tool captures ...
A snapshot in time: Study captures fleeting cell differences that can alter disease risk
In cinema and science fiction, one small change in the past can have major, sometimes life-changing effects in the future. ...
University of Missouri receives $8.6 million grant for new biomedical research center
The Swine Somatic Cell Genome Editing Center will translate laboratory research into treatments for human diseasesCredit: University of Missouri Today, ...
Insects need empathy
Immediate, science-based community action can mitigate insect declineCredit: Julia Harencar This year, German environmentalists collected 1.75 million signatures for a ...
Life data economics: calling for new models to assess the value of human data
After the collapse of the blockchain bubble a number of research organisations are developing platforms to enable individual ownership of ...
Trees for water quality credits
In a new study, UC Santa Barbara Bren School professor Arturo Keller links reforestation to water quality credits The more ...
‘Can you hear me, now?’ A new strategy ‘raises the volume’ of gut-body communication
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Throughout the gastrointestinal tract there are specialized hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells and, although they ...
