How genes interact to build tissues and organisms
Credit: © CRG 2019. All rights reserved. Although the knowledge we have about human cells and tissues has steadily increased ...
Tag: Biology
Worm study sparks hope for slowing muscle decline
Muscle decline caused by ageing and certain diseases could be dramatically slowed by stopping a chain reaction that damages cells, ...
Diabetes can be detected in gut of cats
The cat is the only animal, aside from humans and primates, which spontaneously develops type 2 diabetes. Therefore, researchers are ...
Behavioural correlations of the domestication syndrome are decoupled in modern dog breeds
Scientists since Darwin have been intrigued by the simultaneous alteration of multiple morphological, physiological and behavioural traits across a wide ...
Foraging for nitrogen
How brassinosteroid signaling makes roots grow longer under nitrogen deficiencyCredit: Dr. Ricardo Giehl/IPK As sessile organisms, plants rely on their ...
Fishers keen to help address the problem of marine litter
Credit: Fishing for Litter Commercial fishers are acutely aware of the potential for marine litter to cause lasting damage to ...
Understanding Amazonia’s mysterious ocelots
Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS Researchers conducted a 12-year study from 2010 to 2017 on ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) in the Brazilian ...
Bird personalities influenced by both age and experience, study shows
New research by University of Alberta biologists examines development of personality in birdsCredit: Jan J. Wijmenga For birds, differences in ...
New model predicts impact of invasive lionfish predators on coral reefs
Marine biologists uncover clues about what makes invasive lionfish such effective predators on reefs in the Atlantic and CaribbeanCredit: Mark ...
Taking stock of Indonesia’s reef fishes
Credit: Fakhrizal Setiawan A research team estimated the natural stock of reef fishes from three regencies in the lesser Sunda-Banda ...
Counting the uncounted
Credit: WCS Though abundance is a fundamental measure in ecology and environmental management, detecting all individuals in a population is ...
Leopard coral grouper: Overexploited
Credit: Dhani Researchers measured the population stock in Saleh Bay, Indonesia of the commercially valuable leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus), ...
What’s fair game on the high seas?
Sonar innovation could single out sustainable tuna species from afarCredit: International Seafood Sustainability Foundation WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 6 -- Sustainability-driven ...
Elasmobranches getting slammed
Credit: Benaya Simeon Elasmobranches - sharks, rays, and skates - are at an elevated risk of extinction due to overfishing, ...
Are penguins righties or lefties?
Credit: Julie larsen Maher/WCS Researchers in Punta Tombo, Argentina conducted a study to see whether Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) showed ...
Clemson researchers gain ground in the race to cure widespread parasitic infection
Faculty-led team from Clemson University unveils new findingsCredit: College of Science / Jim Melvin CLEMSON, South Carolina - A faculty-led ...
Are American Zika strains more virulent than Pacific and Asian strains?
Credit: Shigeru Tajima, CC BY 4.0 Over recent years, Zika virus (ZIKV) has spread eastward from Africa and Asia, leading ...
Proteasome inhibitors show promise for drug-resistant malaria
Credit: Stokes, et al. (2019) Proteasome inhibitors have significant promise as components of novel combination therapies to treat multidrug-resistant malaria, ...
Is sex primarily a strategy against transmissible cancer?
Credit: One of the greatest enigmas of evolutionary biology is that while sex is the dominant mode of reproduction among ...
New study identifies molecular aging ‘midlife crisis’
Just as a computer requires code to work, our bodies are regulated by molecular "programs" that are written early in ...
