Tag: Biology

A detailed new model of a bacterial secretion system provides directions for developing precisely targeted antibioticsCredit: Caltech Gastric cancer, Q ...

Marine organisms hold promise for treating triple negative breast cancer

FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute researchers receive $801,000 from Florida Department of HealthCredit: Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute ...

Scientists capture first-ever video of body’s safety test for T cells

Credit: University of Texas at Austin For the first time, immunologists from The University of Texas at Austin have captured ...

Enzyme may indicate predisposition to cardiovascular disease

Study suggests that people with low levels of PDIA1 in blood plasma may be at high risk of thrombosis; this ...

CRISPR catches out critical cancer changes

Researchers reveal which gene fusions are critical for the growth of cancer cells and identify a new drug target for ...

Cell polarity — An aurora over the pole

Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Even before the fertilised egg or zygote can start dividing into daughter cells ...

Over-fed bacteria make people sick

Credit: © Kiel Life Science Since the end of the Second World War, along with the growing prosperity and the ...

Austrian Herpetological Society’s journal Herpetozoa moves to Pensoft’s ARPHA platform

Newly published research articles demonstrate numerous innovative features to the benefit of readers, authors and all other usersCredit: ARPHA and ...

What artificial intelligence can teach us about proteins

Intelligent virtual companions like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have long become integrated into our everyday lives. And intelligent computational ...

Enzyme PHLPP2 could be a viable drug target for treating prostate cancer

Credit: Trotman lab/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- An estimated 450,000 Americans are diagnosed each year with a cancer that's ...

New whistle alerts bats to steer clear of wind turbines

Researchers from Texas A&M will describe a device capable of producing an ultrasonic whistle to deter bats from flying into ...

Dolphin ancestor’s hearing was more like hoofed mammals than today’s sea creatures

CT scan of 30-million-year-old fossil indicates echolocation evolved more than onceCredit: Rachel Racicot/Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University paleontologists are looking into ...

In guppy courtship, the unusual male wins

New FSU study shows psychological concept underpins mating choicesCredit: Bruce Palmer/FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- When it comes to ...

New research identifies patterns of tree distribution in African savannas

Understanding the patterns underlying vegetation distribution is vital for creating predictive models to forecast responses of natural systems to global ...

Escaped pet parrots are now naturalized in 23 US states, study finds

Credit: Jennifer Uehling When Stephen Pruett-Jones, PhD, an ecologist at the University of Chicago, first came to Chicago in 1988, ...

Rice blast fungus study sheds new light on virulence mechanisms of plant pathogenic fungi

Credit: Lianwei Li, Shengpei Zhang, Xinyu Liu, Rui Yu, Xinrui Li, Muxing Liu, Haifeng Zhang, Xiaobo Zheng, Ping Wang, and ...

Analyze this: Space station facility enables rapid biomedical analysis