Tag: Biology

Credit: Dan Minchin/Marine Organism Investigations Over 50 non-native species have found their way to the Galápagos Islands, almost 10 times ...

Knowledge gap closed in our understanding of degradation of ethane

UFZ researchers discover single-celled organism that oxidises ethane on the seabedCredit: ©Matthias Schmidt / UFZ With a share of up ...

What Americans know about science

Americans with more formal education fare better on science-related questions, while Republicans and Democrats are roughly similar in their overall ...

Okinawan sea grapes reveal secrets of plant evolution

Scientists decoded the genome of the popular Okinawan seaweed 'umi-budo' or 'sea grapes,' which could help ease the crop's cultivation ...

New tool uses RNA sequencing to chart rich maps of cellular and tissue function

Slide-seq technique generates high-resolution maps of cellular relationships in tissues, without the need for a microscopeCredit: Macosko/Chen labs A new ...

The bigger the evolutionary jump, the more lethal cross-species diseases could be

Some diseases which are fatal in one species can cause only mild discomfort in another--but it's hard for scientists to ...

Sepsis study to focus on genes in quest for treatments

Scientists say the study could help identify those most vulnerable to sepsis, which kills more than 50,000 people in the ...

New cryptic bird species discovered

Credit: Subir Shakya, LSU In the lush, lowland rainforests on the island of Borneo lives a rather common, drab brown ...

Birds bug out over coffee

Research on coffee farm habitats can help both fowl and farmersCredit: University of Delaware/ Doug Tallamy and Desirée Narango Coffee ...

Offspring of older mothers are more responsive to aging interventions, study finds

Credit: Michael Shribak and Kristin Gribble WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Advanced maternal age at the time of giving birth is ...

Study confirms and ranks nursery value of coastal habitats

Findings will help resource managers with difficult conservation decisionsCredit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS. A comprehensive analysis of more than 11,000 previous ...

U of T Mississauga study identifies ‘master pacemaker’ for biological clocks

Credit: Photo credit: sibya via Pixabay What makes a biological clock tick? According to a new study from U of ...

Engineers craft the basic building block for electrospun nanofibers

Credit: Peter Zhu/Michigan Tech Electrospinning uses electric fields to manipulate nanoscale and microscale fibers. The technique is well-developed but time-intensive ...

Researchers advance effort to manage parasitic roundworms

Patent-pending discoveryCredit: UNH DURHAM, N.H.--Roundworms that feed on plants cause approximately $100 billion in annual global crop damage. Now researchers ...

Gut microbiome research takes center stage in APS-ASPET Presidential Symposium series

Rockville, Md. (March 27, 2019)--Leading physiology and pharmacology researchers will speak in a four-part series centered on the gut microbiome--the ...

Newly discovered role for climbing fibers: Conveying a sensory snapshot to the cerebellum

Researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a special input pathway that holds the key to coding ...

Biophysicists use machine learning to understand, predict dynamics of worm behavior

Biophysicists have used an automated method to model a living system -- the dynamics of a worm perceiving and escaping ...

Researchers beginning to uncover the mystery of hagfish’s zombie hearts

University of Guelph researchers have uncovered clues as to how hagfish keep their hearts pumping for days without oxygenCredit: University ...

Codifying the universal language of honey bees

Credit: Virginia Tech For Virginia Tech researchers Margaret Couvillon and Roger Schürch, the Tower of Babel origin myth - intended ...

High-speed videos capture how kangaroo rat escapes rattlesnake attack