Mantis shrimp larvae punch just like Ma and Pa
Credit: Jacob Harrison, Duke University. Adult mantis shrimp pack an explosive punch that can split water, but no crustacean emerges ...
Tag: Biology
Unlocking herbaria biodiversity using a QR code sampling-to-sequencing workflow
Credit: California Academy of Sciences Within the past decade, next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized the way in which genetic data ...
Wasps are valuable for ecosystems, economy and human health (just like bees)
Credit: Professor Seirian Sumner, UCL Wasps deserve to be just as highly valued as other insects, like bees, due to ...
Research on Lake Victoria cichlids uncovers the processes of rapid species adaptation
Credit: Tokyo Tech Biologists use the term adaptive radiation to describe a phenomenon in which new species rapidly evolve from ...
IPK scientists identify networks for spikelet formation in barley
Credit: IPK / Eva Siebenhühner Organ development in plants mostly occurs through combinatorial activity of so-called meristems. Meristems are plant ...
Scientists from Virginia Tech, City of Hope aim to improve therapy for deadly brain cancer
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded the team, including Jennifer Munson, associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Institute ...
Researchers assemble error-free genomes of 16 animals–with another 70,000 coming up
Credit: Chris Birmingham, CC BY 2.0 The flightless kakapo of New Zealand is in trouble. The world's heaviest parrot--representing one ...
Epilepsy discovery reveals why some seizures prove deadly
Credit: Courtesy Patel lab New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on the No. ...
Rutgers Professor Joan Bennett elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Plant biologist studies the genetics and physiology of thread-like fungiCredit: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University Joan W. Bennett, a Distinguished Professor of ...
A minty-fresh solution: Using a menthol-like compound to activate plant immune mechanisms
A menthol-like compound was found to boost the expression of genes that protect crop species from pest-related damageCredit: Tokyo University ...
Research could enable biotechnology advances: medicine, protective equipment, sensors
Credit: Courtesy Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- New Army-funded synthetic biology research manipulated ...
Proposal of new universal nomenclature for oxytocin and vasotocin genes
Terminological confusion between speciesCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Oxytocin and arginine vasopressin are two hormones in the endocrine system that can ...
Uniting strengths to expand research
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the Italian Institute of Technology have signed an agreement to expand the scope of ...
Bone collagen of fish shows individual history of migration and feeding habits
Credit: Yoshikazu Kato Collagen is a protein found widely in almost all cells of animals, and scientifically can be used ...
How behavioral rhythms are fine-tuned in the brain
Researchers led by a team at Kanazawa University report that vasopressin neurons in the brain's circadian rhythm control center are ...
Spring forest flowers likely key to bumble bee survival, Illinois study finds
Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- For more than a decade, ecologists have been warning of a ...
Treating neurological symptoms of CHARGE syndrome
Discovery of a treatment that alleviates some neurological symptoms of a rare genetic disorderCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) CHARGE syndrome is ...
The growing promise of community-based monitoring and citizen science
Credit: Kayla Farmer Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by ...
Drones provide bird’s eye view of how turbulent tidal flows affect seabird foraging habits
Credit: Lilian Lieber, Queen's University Belfast The foraging behaviour of seabirds is dramatically affected by turbulence caused by natural coastal ...
WVU receives NSF grant to transition large fungal collection to University of Kansas
Credit: Brian Persinger/WVU For more than 30 years, the world's largest collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - the "good" kind ...
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