Tag: Biology

Credit: RIKEN Researchers led by Katsunori Tanaka and Kenward Vong at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan ...

From corals to crops: How life protects the plans for its cellular power stations

Credit: Gemma Lofthouse An international team of researchers led by the University of Bergen has uncovered how organisms from crops ...

First description of a new octopus species without using a scalpel

Biologists at the University of Bonn use state-of-the-art non-destructive methods to study an octopus from the deep seaCredit: © Alexander ...

Climate change impacts conservation sites across the Americas

Credit: Professor Stephen Willis A continental-scale network of conservation sites is likely to remain effective under future climate change scenarios, ...

International award for IPK scientist Nils Stein

Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring "Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will be awarded a medal from the Royal Physiographical Society ...

Defense mechanisms in aphids can become a double-edged sword, sharpened by the seasons

Protective endosymbiont dynamics in pea aphids are sharpened by selectionCredit: Drexel University/Linyao Peng Evolution is unfolding in real time within ...

Researchers uncover activation mechanism of a cell growth protein that can trigger cancer

Credit: Thorsten Mohr There are many different types of cancer, but they all have one thing in common: errors in ...

Newly discovered immune cell function vital to healing

Credit: David Ahl Cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death, is the result of oxygen deprivation as blood perfusion ...

From individual receptors towards whole-brain function

Credit: RUB, Marquard In the brain, more than a hundred molecular substances act as transmitters that control communication pathways between ...

VR visualization supports research on molecular networks

A new VR platform enables the display of huge amounts of data. This can be helpful in the study of ...

Recreating the earliest stages of life

Scientists generate synthetic mouse embryos containing the three fundamental cell types normally found in pre-implantation embryosCredit: Gladstone Institutes SAN FRANCISCO, ...

Climate-friendly microbes chomp dead plants without releasing heat-trapping methane

Credit: Jian-Yu Jiao/Sun Yat-Sen University The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the ...

Hungry fruit flies are extreme ultramarathon fliers

In search of food, a fly can travel six million times its body lengthCredit: Floris van Breugel In 2005, an ...

MERS DNA vaccine induces immunity, protects from virus challenge in preclinical model

Dose-sparing regimens and intradermal delivery have important implication for rapid clinical development of effective, well-tolerated and easy-to-distribute vaccines against MERS ...

Little crop of horrors

With genes from carnivorous plants, researchers aim to grow hardier crop plantsCredit: Tanya Renner, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- ...

Scientists uncover structure of light-driven enzyme with potential biofuel applications

Derived from microscopic algae, the enzyme converts fatty acids into starting ingredients for solvents and fuelsCredit: Damien Sorigue/Universite Aix-Marseille Although ...

Stress test finds cracks in the resistance of harmful hospital bugs

Credit: John Innes Centre Research has identified critical factors that enable dangerous bacteria to spread disease by surviving on surfaces ...

Study of ‘breakthrough’ cases suggests COVID testing may be here to stay

Credit: Matthew Septimus/The Rockefeller University In rare cases, people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID and are immune to ...

How we know whether and when to pay attention

Fast reactions are based on estimates of whether and when events will occurCredit: Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Fast ...

Miniaturized models of neuron-muscle interactions give insight in ALS