Tag: Biology

Credit: Inset: OCEARCH Background: Neil Hammerschlag, Ph.D. Researchers found high concentrations of mercury, arsenic, and lead, in blood samples obtained ...

Innovative biosensors open up new possibilities to probe animal and human cellsCredit: American Chemical Society A collaborative study between Tokyo ...

Credit: Petr Popov et al./Current Opinion in Structural Biology Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the ...

Credit: M Varjosalo & Lehti Group Uncontrolled growth of cancer arises from the imbalanced regulation of cell division and programmed ...

Cells belonging to the body's own immune system can help fight tumours. For several years now, this has allowed oncologists ...

Global-scale analysis of losses due to chytrid fungus paints a grim picture: 500 species declines, 90 of which have already ...

New finding by NYU Abu Dhabi researchers published in the journal Scientific ReportsCredit: NYU Abu Dhabi Postdoctoral Associate Sandra Goutte ...

Low levels of oxygen in the womb - which can be caused by smoking or conditions such as pre-eclampsia - ...

The role of mosquitoes in spreading malaria is the biggest factor behind a recent study that found them to be ...

Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0, 2016) Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, already threaten over a billion people ...

WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the ...

The discovery of these seemingly out-of-place sensing cells may lend insight into possibilities for protecting lung function in people who ...

A new study led by scientists in the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) sheds ...

Survey by researchers in 16 countries is published in Science. Authors say chytrid fungus is responsible for heaviest biodiversity loss ...

Credit: Nathan Schroeder, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The soybean cyst nematode, one of the crop's most destructive pests, ...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham aging expert -- and once-upon-a-time lion trainer -- Steven Austad, ...

Enabling discoveries at the frontier: The 2019 HFSP Research Grants The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) announced today ...

Credit: Public domain Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have developed a new computational ...

Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology have named five new species of frogs ...

HFSP to accelerate frontier research in 15 new laboratories The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) announced today 15 ...