Revamping science: Making room for more voices
How diversity in science is not just about representation but about enriching knowledge Science is known for being objective and ...
Tag: Biology
AJTMH tipsheet for March 2019
Credit: Photo from Thomas Unnasch, University of South Florida Your advance look at three new studies in the American Journal ...
When coyote parents get used to humans, their offspring become bolder, too
Credit: Steve Guymon/National Wildlife Research Center Across North America, coyotes are moving into urban environments, and regardless of how they ...
For hyenas, there’s no ‘I’ in clan
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - When it comes to advancing social status, it's not what you know, ...
For infection-fighting cells, a guideline for expanding the troops
Researchers at Princeton look into the mathematical relationship that describes how T cells expand in response to infection T cells ...
Forgetting uses more brain power than remembering
AUSTIN, Texas -- Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, researchers at The ...
Selfish genetic elements amplify inflammation and age-related diseases
Aging affects every living organism, but the molecular processes that contribute to aging remain a subject of debate. While many ...
New regulatory factor identified in bone formation
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 11, 2019-Researchers report the identification of a novel transcription factor ...
Genes that evolve from scratch expand protein diversity
Genomic analysis of rice plants provides decisive evidence of de novo gene origination One of the most important questions in ...
No silver bullet for helping the Great Barrier Reef
Improving water quality can help the Great Barrier Reef, but won't suffice to rescue itCredit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor Recent flooding and ...
Integral Molecular’s MAbs against CB1 to treat NASH enter new development phase following $1.4 million award
CB1 MAbs enter new development phaseCredit: Integral Molecular Integral Molecular, the industry leader in antibody discovery against multipass membrane proteins, ...
Teenage T. rex was already chomping on prey, new UW Oshkosh research shows
Credit: Patrick Flood, UW Oshkosh New research from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh indicates that even as a teenager the ...
Researchers find a piece of Palaeolithic art featuring birds and humans
An exceptional milestone in European Palaeolithic rock artCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA It is not very common to find representations of ...
Mystery solved — biologists in Dresden explain the genetic origins of the saffron crocus
Medicinal plant, bed of the gods, spice and source of conflict -- the luxurious saffron is shrouded in mythCredit: TUD/Sarah ...
Unveiling the role of selenocysteine, the mysterious 21st amino acid
Selenocysteine is an essential amino acid for certain species, such as humans and the other vertebrates, although it has disappeared ...
The largest ever catalog of bacteria in the human body contain over 150 thousands genomes
A large number of previously uncharacterized bacteria living in and on humans was discovered and analyzed by scientists at the ...
Sex differences in personality traits in Asian elephants
Credit: John Jackson Personality in humans has been a well-known concept for long, but during the last two decades science ...
UNH researchers identify role gender-biased protein may play in autism
DURHAM, N.H. - Researchers at the University of New Hampshire are one step closer to helping answer the question of ...
FAIR biodiversity data in Pensoft journals thanks to a routine data auditing workflow
Credit: Pensoft To avoid publication of openly accessible, yet unusable datasets, fated to result in irreproducible and inoperable biological diversity ...
New data uncovers missing numbers to the only body clock that matters — Your immune age
Your immune age is the key determinant of future health and response to disease and treatment - quantified now for ...
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