Cellular stress at the movies
Biochemists illuminate a key survival mechanism in cellsCredit: Stasevich Lab/Colorado State University Much like our fight-or-flight response, our cells also ...
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Drier mountains pose a double whammy for cold-adapted amphibians, says SFU study
Credit: SFU A species of frog endemic to the Pacific Northwest faces a 50 per cent increase in the probability ...
Researchers discover record-breaking salamander
Credit: Nicholas Gladstone/University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Researchers at UT have discovered the largest individual of any cave salamander in North ...
Morris Animal Foundation awards $1 million for new canine and feline health studies
Worth more than a few happy barks and meows, Morris Animal Foundation announced it awarded nearly $1 million in grants ...
Scientists identify toxic antipredator defense mechanism in locusts
Credit: IOZ A team of scientists led by Prof. KANG Le at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...
IUPUI researchers re-create retinal microenvironment in a dish with human stem cells
Credit: Photo courtesy of the School of Science INDIANAPOLIS -- IUPUI biologists, growing human pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal ganglion cells ...
OU postdoctoral researcher wins Hynes Award from society
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma postdoctoral research fellow, Daniel Nelson, is the 2019 winner of the Hynes ...
An integrative approach to studying lipid biology
The synthesis and transport of biological lipids across the mostly water-filled interior of the cell is a longstanding problem in ...
How sponges undermine coral reefs from within
Scientists from the Royal NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research have uncovered how the sponges hollow out and take over ...
Listeria in the feed: A dangerous hygiene problem in fattening pigs
Credit: ©Vetmeduni Vienna The present case investigated at Vetmeduni Vienna is the first clinical report on this form of listeriosis ...
Inequality promotes deforestation in Latin America
Credit: Manu Friedrich Tropical deforestation is a major contributor to climate change and loss of local and global ecosystem functions. ...
Flounders in the Gulf of Finland: Decline caused by the near disappearance of one species
Over the past 40 years, there has been a dramatic decline in fishery landings of an iconic Baltic Sea fish: ...
New insight into unique sugar transport in plants
Credit: Bjorn Panyella Pedersen, Aarhus University Sugar transport through Sugar Transport Proteins (STP) is unique to plants, and is important ...
Why some mites are mightier than others: The evolution of lethal fighting in a spider mite
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba: While fighting over females for the right to breed is common among male animals in ...
Zika vaccines should induce responses by CD4+ T cells
Immune cells called CD4+ T cells could be important mediators of protection against the Zika virus, according to a study ...
Gero to reveal its latest results in aging research at Longevity Therapeutics 2019
Gero is a data-driven longevity company developing innovative therapies that will strongly extend the healthy period of life also known ...
First confirmed cases of rabbit virus found in UK hares
Collaborative research led by the University of East Anglia has identified one of the causes of recent deaths in UK ...
The first tendril-like soft robot able to climb
Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia obtained the first artificial plant tendrils: it is a soft robot able to curl ...
Study of archaeal cells could teach us more about ourselves
Forty-two years after Carl Woese defined archaea as the third domain of life, scientists at the Carl R. Woese Institute ...
PopPUNK advances speed of bacterial pathogen surveillance
Credit: Lees et al. 2019 Jan 24, 2019 -- Differences in genetic diversity among bacterial pathogens correlate with clinically important ...