What is white chocolate? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2019 -- Today, we're showing our love for white chocolate. Sure, it ...
Tag: Biology
Study reveals the hidden contributions of women to a branch of science
Decades of research papers show how female scientists' work was overlooked From DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin to the NASA mathematicians ...
Study shows unusual microbes hold clues to early life
Cutting-edge molecular methods reveal unusual metabolism of extreme microbesCredit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, courtesy of University of California, Santa Cruz, ...
DNA provides insights into penguin evolution and reveals two new extinct penguins
Credit: Sean Murtha New University of Otago research has improved our understanding of when and why penguins evolved, and has ...
Immigrant scientists lead charge in understanding human biology and disease
$250,000 in Vilcek Foundation Prizes awarded to Angelika Amon, Amit Choudhary, Jeanne T. Paz, and Mikhail G. Shapiro The Vilcek ...
Improving the body's ability to fight cancer and intruders
New methods for understanding the immune system and how to boost itCredit: National Institutes of Health The human body's immune ...
Mosaic-like gene deletion and duplication pattern shaping the immune system discovered
The field of genetic sequencing has undergone a dramatic revolution over the past 20 years. In 2001 the first copy ...
Folliculin mutations disrupt embryo implantation
Folliculin gene defects are implicated in some forms of infertility, certain cancers and other cell growth disordersCredit: Jennifer Hesson New ...
Why your kid's strep throat keeps coming back
A combination of genetic and immunological factors makes some children susceptible to the bacteria that cause strep throatCredit: Dr. Yu ...
Microbial manufacturing
Study unravels how microbes produce key compound used to fight cancer For decades, scientists and doctors have known that bacteria ...
Male Y chromosomes not 'genetic wastelands'
When researchers say they have sequenced the human genome, there is a caveat to this statement: a lot of the ...
OU study finds insects crave salt and search grasslands for the limiting nutrient
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma team from the Geographical Ecology Group has published a new study in ...
A very small number of crops are dominating globally. That's bad news for sustainable agriculture
Four crops alone comprise close to 50 per cent of all crops grown globallyCredit: University of Toronto Scarborough A new ...
How does the Amazon rain forest cope with drought?
EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Amazon rain forest isn't necessarily a place that many would associate with a drought, yet ...
Study confirms beaked whales' incredible diving abilities
Cuvier's beaked whales go a mile deep, hold breath for an hourCredit: Andrew J. Read DURHAM, N.C. -- A new ...
An elegant mechanism
Credit: Photo: Working groups Becker and Pfanner The research labs of the associate professor Dr. Thomas Becker and Prof. Dr. ...
Researchers investigate a billion years of coexistence between plants and fungi
Credit: Tom Wieboldt What can a billion years of coexistence tell us about the evolution of plants and fungi? Neither ...
Research explains how snakes lost their limbs
The study is part of an effort to understand how changes in the genome lead to changes in phenotypes Snakes ...
How one gene in a tiny fish may alter an aquatic ecosystem
Linking genomics to evolution to ecology, the work takes an unusual approach to reveal broad implications of how species adapt ...
Escort service: The role of immune cells in the formation of metastases
Credit: University of Basel Tumor cells use a certain type of immune cells, the so-called neutrophils, to enhance their ability ...
