Tag: Biology

Large DNA virus that helps scientists understand the origins of DNA replication and the evolution of complex lifeCredit: © Tokyo ...

Relationship between root microbiome and nitrogen use efficiency revealed in rice

A collaborative team led by Prof. BAI Yang and Prof. CHU Chengcai from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, ...

US cities host more regionally unique species than previously thought

Nanomaterials mimicking natural enzymes with superior catalytic activity and selectivity

Credit: KAIST A KAIST research team doped nitrogen and boron into graphene to selectively increase peroxidase-like activity and succeeded in ...

Study reveals how glial cells may play key epilepsy role

Credit: Shirley Weiss/Troy Littleton/MIT A new study provides potential new targets for treating epilepsy and new fundamental insights into the ...

Science, health journalists receive research fellowships from Marine Biological Laboratory

Credit: Tara Haelle WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Twelve journalists have been awarded Logan Science Journalism Fellowships from the Marine Biological ...

How the bumble bee got its stripes

Credit: Li Tian, Penn State Researchers have discovered a gene that drives color differences within a species of bumble bees. ...

An important function of non-nucleated sperm

Credit: NIBB Some animals form characteristic infertile spermatozoa called parasperm, which differ in size and shape compared to fertile sperm ...

Parasitoid wasps may turn spiders into zombies by hacking their internal code

Credit: Marcelo O. Gonzaga Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave ...

Plant cells eat their own … membranes and oil droplets

Study IDs dual role for 'autophagy' -- a.k.a. 'self-eating' -- in building and breaking down plant oils; manipulating the process ...

Responses to environmental tragedies often make matters worse, ethicists find

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Without sound decision-making, responses to seeming environmental tragedies can often make matters worse, according to ethicists who ...

How the olfactory brain affects memory

Credit: RUB, Kramer How sensory perception in the brain affects learning and memory processes is far from fully understood. Two ...

Wax helps plants to survive in the desert

Credit: JMU Wuerzburg In 1956, the Würzburg botanist Otto Ludwig Lange observed an unusual phenomenon in the Mauritanian desert in ...

The last chance for Madagascar’s biodiversity

The most important actions needed by Madagascar's new government to prevent species and habitats being lost for everCredit: Copyright Daniel ...

New 3D microscope visualises fast biological processes better than ever

Credit: Tobias Wüstenfeld "Many important biological processes occur in three dimensions and on millisecond timescales," says Lars Hufnagel on the ...

H3N2 viruses mutate during vaccine production but new tech could fix it

Credit: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- In late March 2019, the World Health Organization and a vaccine advisory committee ...

What makes memories stronger?

Leuven researchers shed new light on how the brain solidifies important memories A team of scientists at NeuroElectronics Research Flanders ...

Fleming’s method in miniature

Credit: ETH Zurich / Steven Schmitt and Helena Shomar It was 90 years ago that mould accidentally got onto a ...

Major findings help understand bacteria’s ‘superglue’

Understanding these superglue proteins could help in the battle against antibiotic resistanceCredit: La Trobe University The discovery, published today in ...

DNA folds into a smart nanocapsule for drug delivery