Tag: Biology

Credit: Dennis Wise/University of Washington Tissue engineering could transform medicine. Instead of waiting for our bodies to regrow or repair ...

Road to cell death mapped in the Alzheimer’s brain

Newly identified mechanisms offer novel avenues for targeted therapeutic developmentCredit: Courtesy of Van Andel Research Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (May ...

In a first, researchers identify reddish coloring in an ancient fossil

X-rays reveal an extinct mouse was dressed in brown to reddish fur on its back and sides and had a ...

Penguins and their chicks’ responses to local fish numbers informs marine conservation

Credit: R. B. Sherley How adult penguins fish and the body condition of their chicks are directly linked to local ...

Air pollution affects tree growth in São Paulo

Researchers in Brazil find that high levels of heavy metals and particulate matter suspended in the atmosphere restrict the growth ...

Staying in shape: How rod-shaped bacteria grow long, not wide

Credit: R. Oldenbourg and E. Garner WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- The slender, rod-shaped Bacillus subtilis is one of the best-studied ...

Rocky mountain spotted fever risks examined

First comprehensive study in Mexicali, MX looks at disease spreadCredit: Janet Foley/UC Davis In Mexicali, Mexico, an uncontrolled epidemic of ...

Giving rural Indians what they want increases demand for cookstoves

Common business practices, including enticing rebates, improves adoption of new cookstoves in rural IndiaCredit: Duke Global Health DURHAM, N.C. - ...

Resilience of Yellowstone’s forests tested by unprecedented fire

MADISON, Wis. -- In August 2016, areas of Yellowstone National Park that burned in 1988 burned again. Shortly after, in ...

June’s SLAS technology special collection now available

Sample management collection features 'next generation compound delivery to support miniaturized biology'Credit: David James Group Oak Brook, IL - The ...

Feds fund creation of headset for high-speed brain link

Rice-led project aims to transfer visual perceptions from the sighted to the blindCredit: J. Robinson/Rice University A Rice University-led team ...

Synthetic biologists hack bacterial sensors

Technology could enable new medical, industrial, environmental biosensorsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University synthetic biologists have hacked bacterial sensing with ...

Neurobiology: Doubly secured

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have used CRISPR technology to probe the mechanisms that guide the developmental trajectories of stem ...

Pseudohermaphrodite snails can help to access how polluted the Arctic seas are

Credit: Ivan Nekhaev, a postdoc at St Petersburg University Ivan Nekhaev, a postdoc at St Petersburg University, studied snails of ...

Climate change has long-term impact on species adaptability

Historic climate change events can have a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of a species, reveals a new study ...

Russian scientists make discovery that can help remove gypsy moths from forests

Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University The caterpillars of Lymantria dispar or Gypsy Moth are voracious eaters capable of defoliating ...

Size is everything

Ecologist Prof. Ulrich Brose of Friedrich Schiller University Jena and of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) has ...

DFG approves new research training group investigating the evolution of gene regulation

The new Research Training Group 'Gene Regulation in Evolution: From Molecular to Extended Phenotypes' gives a boost to Mainz University ...

Progress to restore movement in people with neuromotor disabilities

A study published in the journal Neural Computation involving Núria Armengol, a biomedical engineer at UPF, further to her bachelor's ...

SABER tech gives DNA and RNA visualization a boost