Tag: Biology

Credit: Sarah Pack A new study demonstrates for the first time that changes in cognitive performance correlate with changes in ...

Study tracks evolutionary history of metabolic networks

Credit: Photo illustration by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By analyzing how metabolic enzymes are built and organized, researchers have ...

Signaling waves determine embryonic fates

Rice University lab shows cell-signal pathway dynamics prompt first patterns in embryosCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) ...

3D-printed device finds ‘needle in a haystack’ cancer cells by removing the hay

Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Finding a handful of cancer cells hiding among billions of blood cells in a patient ...

Transforming DNA repair errors into assets

CiRA scientists create a new bioinformatics tool, MHcut, to generate gene mutations with high precision to study diseasesCredit: Kyoto University/Woltjen ...

DNA is like everything else: it’s not what you have, but how you use it

Flipons -- an instructive Genetic CodeCredit: Alan Herbert DNA sequences encode information in many different ways. Codons specify the amino ...

Argonaute proteins help fine-tune gene expression

The frostier the flower, the more potent the cannabis

Advanced microscopy reveals internal structures of cannabis biochemical factoriesCredit: Samuels Lab/UBC Cannabis flowers with the most mushroom-shaped hairs pack the ...

Biomarker for schizophrenia can be detected in human hair

Credit: RIKEN Working with model mice, post-mortem human brains, and people with schizophrenia, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain ...

Lupus study illustrates the importance of diversity in genetic research

Credit: HudsonAlpha Scientists at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have pinpointed epigenetic differences in the way lupus affects black women ...

A weapon to make a superbug to become more deadly

Professor Chen and his team carried out experiments to compare the survival rates of the mice infected with different bacterial ...

Insect evolution: Insect evolution

Credit: Picture: V. Baranov Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that the incidence of midge and fly larvae ...

Pathogens from the sea

A marine pathogenic bacterium forms specialized cells for disseminationCredit: MPI f. terrestrial Microbiology/ Ringaard Vibrio parahaemolyticus can be found in ...

Fire-spawned forest fungi hide out in other organisms, study finds