Seeing the unseeable
Using crystals to unpick how viruses work Researchers at Cardiff University have used x-ray crystallography and computer simulation to get ...
Tag: Biology
Epidemiological model lends insight to chlamydia outbreak in Japan
Credit: Toshikazu Kuniya, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. Mathematical models that quantify the dynamics of infectious diseases are crucial predictive ...
A lack of antibody diversity may make the elderly more susceptible to the flu
Credit: Henry et al./Cell Host & Microbe The influenza vaccine may be less effective in the elderly because their B ...
A shared past for East Africa's hunter-gatherers
A genomic analysis suggests African hunting and gathering groups diverged from a common ancestry, and underscores the role of infectious ...
Antibiotic resistances spread faster than so far thought
Credit: © Helmholtz Zentrum München By studying fish raised in aquaculture, researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, the University of ...
Researchers find trigger that turns strep infections into flesh-eating disease
Discovery may also help scientists develop childbed fever vaccineCredit: NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) HOUSTON-(Feb. 18, ...
Tuberculosis: Commandeering a bacterial 'suicide' mechanism
Credit: Antonio Peixoto, Claude Gutierrez, and Olivier Neyrolles | IPBS | CNRS/UPS The bacteria responsible for tuberculosis can be killed ...
Suicide system in tuberculosis bacteria might hold key to treatment
Credit: EMBL Hamburg Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide. In 2017, 10 million people ...
Virus-infected bacteria could provide help in the fight against climate change
Credit: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Viruses don't always kill their microbial hosts. In many cases, they develop a mutually beneficial ...
Children carry evidence of toxins from home flooring and furniture
Vinyl flooring and fire retardant furniture foam apparently to blameCredit: Duke Photo DURHAM, N.C. -- Children living in homes with ...
Study shows hope for fighting disease known as Ebola of frogs
Credit: William Hawthorne Despite widespread infection, some frog populations are surviving a deadly disease that is the equivalent of mankind's ...
Researchers find genetic vulnerability to menthol cigarette use
FDA- and NIH-funded study finds unexpected sensory variant exclusive to African-Americans A genetic variant found only in people of African ...
Biologists identify honeybee 'clean' genes known for improving survival
York University research may help save rapidly declining bees TORONTO, February 15, 2019 - The key to breeding disease-resistant honeybees ...
Elk avoid beetle-killed forest areas
Credit: Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Loss of the heat-shielding forest canopy and the obstacle of fallen trees ...
Winning Science's annual 'Dance Your Ph.D.' contest, physicist depicts electrons swinging on superconducting wires
Dance video shows 'unsociable' particles becoming 'joyful' pairs Scientific research can be a lonely pursuit. And for Pramodh Senarath Yapa, ...
Brain discovery explains a great mystery of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
Credit: Dan Addison | University Communications One of the great mysteries of neuroscience may finally have an answer: Scientists at ...
Linking sensing to signaling during plant immunity
Credit: Deepak Bhandari & Dmitry Lapin Plant defense against invading pathogens relies upon effective recognition of non-self organisms and a ...
Spare 10 minutes to make science leap forward
New citizen science project From Diamond Light Source seeks to train AI to identify virus particlesCredit: Diamond Light Source, 2019 ...
The science behind big '80s hairstyles (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2019 -- The '80s was a decade full of neon leg warmers, ...
eLife invests in Texture to provide open-source content production tools for publishers
Collaborating on the development of Texture brings eLife a step closer to its open-source, end-to-end publisher workflow eLife has announced ...
