Tag: Biology

Credit: Monika Dzieciol AMES, Iowa - Some aged cheeses cause allergy-like reactions in many people, but an Iowa State University ...

Duke University professor receives 2019 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award from ASNTR

Duke University professor receives award at 2019 ASNTR Tampa, Fla. (April 16, 2019) - In advance of its 2019 annual ...

Honey, I ate the kids: The sweet side of filial cannibalism

This Easter, researchers reveal why some parents eat their kids' eggs: it's because they care As you bite into a ...

Climate change threatens endangered sparrows

A new study in The Condor: Ornithological Applications finds that some sparrow species will go extinct within the century due ...

Google searches reveal popular bird species

Knowledge may help fine-tune conservation messagesCredit: Photo by Marie Lehmann. Ithaca, NY--Cross-referencing a decade of Google searches and citizen science ...

Physician-writer Siddhartha Mukherjee will be awarded the 2019 Lewis Thomas Prize

Siddhartha Mukherjee has delighted, informed, and touched a wide audience through his books and essays, for which he will be ...

New microscopy technique peers deep into the brain

Credit: Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University In order to understand the brain, scientists must be able ...

Rice advances the art of protein blacksmithing

Researchers forge new computational tools to make more accurate predictions of protein structuresCredit: Rice University/Wikipedia HOUSTON - (April 15, 2019) ...

Synthetic peptide can inhibit toxicity, aggregation of protein in Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer's is a disease of aggregation. Neurons in the human brain make a protein called amyloid beta. Such proteins on ...

Gene-based factor VIIa prevents bleeding episodes in animals with hemophilia

CHOP researchers: Preclinical work offers first target levels for bypass agent prophylaxis in future human trialsCredit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ...

MU neurobiologists annotate critical neuronal proteins in lamprey genome

Credit: University of Missouri The lamprey, an eel-like primitive vertebrate, is a popular organism for neurobiology studies because it has ...

Entomologists uncover Florida fire ant matriarchy

Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA Athens, Ga. - In most colonies, ants work in service of a single reproductive queen, but ...

Scientists use eBird data to propose optimal bird conservation plan

The goal is to conserve habitat and protect migratory birdsCredit: Cameron Rognan/Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ottawa, ON, and Ithaca, NY-- ...

Could climate change cause infertility?

The scientific community has long held an understanding about the effect of temperature on sperm production in mammals, but this ...

Researcher awarded $1.17 million for cancer research

New understanding of cellular life cycle could inform transformative cancer treatmentCredit: The University of Texas at Arlington A scientist's research ...

Princeton scientists discover an interaction that helps cancers spread to bone

Credit: Image courtesy of Mark Esposito and Yibin Kang A Princeton-led team of researchers have discovered a factor that promotes ...

DOE announces $95 million for small business research and development grants

86 grants will support scientific innovation U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry today announced that the Department of Energy will award ...

Genome sequencing lab awarded international quality stamp

The University of Edinburgh's DNA sequencing facility has received an internationally-recognised accreditation to mark the quality of its genome analysis ...

Army scientists lead the way to produce tools for engineering biomolecules

Credit: Courtesy of Autumn Kulaga, CCDC Army Research Laboratory Army scientists have discovered how to build novel synthetic biomolecule complexes ...

Rumford Prize for Georg Nagel