Life in Antarctica’s ice mirrors human disease
Credit: A. Dornburg The cooling of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, which began approximately 35 million years ago and gave ...
Tag: Biology
Molecular chatter makes for a ‘hot tumor’
Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research JUNE 10, 2019, NEW YORK - A Ludwig Cancer Research study has deciphered a complex molecular ...
Pneumonia mapped in largest genomic survey of any disease-causing bacterium
Study will help predict strains important for new vaccines Researchers have mapped the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia around ...
Combating mosquito-borne diseases with bacteria
Credit: Cassandra Koh / Monash University Viruses, spread through mosquito bites, cause human illnesses such as dengue fever, Zika and ...
Last-ditch attempt to warn of coalmine harm
Australian desert oasis at centre of disputeCredit: Coast and Country Groundwater experts from around Australia have repeated calls for further ...
Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch
Results of study involving primates suggest that speech and music may have shaped the human brain's hearing circuitsCredit: Courtesy of ...
AI software reveals the inner workings of short-term memory
Short-term memory uses brain circuits differently depending on complexity of a task Research by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago ...
The cholera bacterium’s 3-in-1 toolkit for life in the ocean
The cholera bacterium uses a grappling hook-like appendage to take up DNA, bind to nutritious surfaces and recognize 'family' members, ...
Lettuce have it! Machine learning for cr-optimization
Credit: G's Growers At Earlham Institute (EI), artificial intelligence based techniques such as machine learning is moving from being merely ...
DNA base editing induces substantial off-target RNA mutations
In a study published in Nature on June 10, researchers from Dr. YANG Hui's Lab at the Institute of Neuroscience ...
Unhealthy gut promotes spread of breast cancer, study finds
Disrupting gut bacteria had profound, sustained effects, making cancer more aggressiveCredit: Alexandra Angelich | UVA An unhealthy, inflamed gut causes ...
2019 ‘dead zone’ may be the second largest on record
A recent forecast of the size of the "Dead Zone" in the northern Gulf of Mexico for late July 2019 ...
What’s your poison? Scrupulous scorpions tailor venom to target
Scorpions adapt their stinging, stingers and sting contents to minimize the costs of venom use Replenishing venom takes time and ...
‘Green Revolution’ in RNAi tools and therapeutics
Plant-derived silencing RNAs inhibit HBsAg expression in mice "Green revolution" in the early 1950s, the extensive cultivation of Dwarf Rice ...
Mapping the ocean’s unseen heroes, one microbe at a time
Online Citizen Science project Adrift launches on World Ocean DayCredit: David Lawrey The picture of how climate change is impacting ...
U of G researchers discover meat-eating plant in Ontario, Canada
In what is believed to be a first for North America, biologists at the University of Guelph have discovered that ...
NIST infrared frequency comb measures biological signatures
Credit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have demonstrated a compact frequency-comb apparatus ...
Four new species of plume moths discovered in Bahamas
Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Deborah Matthews hunts for plume moths in darkness, waiting for the halo of ...
Proof of sandwiched graphene-membrane superstructure opens up a membrane-specific drug delivery mode
Credit: YUE Hua and CHEN Pengyu Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
Sediment from fishing choking out sea sponges, study shows
New research shows sediment stirred up by human activity is clogging glass sea sponges on Canada's west coastCredit: John Ulan ...
