Tag: Biology

Credit: Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, it is possible to stand in a lush tropical forest that ...

Credit: Yale University Deep in the ocean or underground, where there is no oxygen, Geobacter bacteria "breathe" by projecting tiny ...

Credit: Jijie Chai Although separated by more than one billion years of evolution, plants and animals have hit upon similar ...

Study's findings challenge understandings of genes as fixed features of our biology EVANSTON, Ill. --- A new Northwestern University study ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a method that exploits the multitargeted nature of ...

The IGS Genome Center for Infectious Diseases is funded for 5 additional years BALTIMORE, MD., April 4 -- The Institute ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, scientists led by Juana Díez show that the three main stages of ...

Holm oaks are some of the most emblematic trees in Mediterranean forests and the most abundant ones on the Iberian ...

Cell biologists show in fruit flies how a protein controls mechanical stress on muscle-tendon attachmentsCredit: S. Lemke et al. Muscles ...

Credit: Christian Giese Whether it is bats, wildebeest or whales, millions of mammals move over thousands of kilometres each year. ...

Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Research Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (April 4, 2019) -- A new study out today in ...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 4, 2019--Researchers have proposed new guidelines to overcome current problems ...

Credit: Doerthe Tetzlaff Faecal bacteria - bacteria that are present in the digestive system of humans and animals - are ...

Credit: Hanna Støstad The research was part of the thesis of PhD student Hanna Nyborg Støstad, investigating the peculiar spiral ...

Researchers reveal amazing biological 'wires' of a sort never seen beforeCredit: Edward H. Egelman Scientists have made a surprising discovery ...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 04, 2019 -- There are thousands of species of birds here on Earth, ...

Credit: (Photo: Robert Emmerich / JMUW) Chlamydia is the main cause of venereal diseases in Germany. These sexually transmitted bacteria ...

A fungus, an antibiotic, a parasite, and a cureCredit: Image by Motomichi Matsuzaki, CC-BY Researchers have turned a fungus into ...

Proof-of-concept test results in first-ever detection of viruses in field-collected mosquito wasteCredit: James Gathany, CDC Public Health Image Library Annapolis, ...

About one in every 100 babies is born with some kind of developmental anomaly in the urogenital tract. In most ...