Tag: Biology

Credit: UAB A team of researchers has discovered a new process capable of generating resistance to synthetic antibacterial drugs within ...

GSK and Sanofi join FinnGen, a large scale genome study of the Finnish population

The FinnGen study, launched in autumn 2017, is a broad academic-industrial collaboration between the Finnish biobanks and their respective Universities, ...

Antarctic krill population contracts southward as polar oceans warm

> The population of Antarctic krill, the favourite food of many whales, penguins, fish and seals, shifted southward during a ...

Corals light the way to a healthy partnership

Credit: Craig Humphrey Corals know how to attract good company. New research finds that corals emit an enticing fluorescent green ...

From nurses to conquerors: this single gene turns bees into social parasites

Tiny mutation enables worker bees to produce female offspringCredit: Michael Allsopp A small change in the genetic makeup of the ...

Human respiratory viruses continue to spread in wild chimpanzees

MADISON - Less than two years after the first report of wild chimpanzees in Uganda dying as a result of ...

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists link concussions to epilepsy development

Altered astrocytes may be the root of epilepsy developmentCredit: Oleksii Shandra/Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research ...

Multi-hop communication: Frog choruses inspire wireless sensor networks

A research collaboration including investigators from Osaka University devise a mathematical model based on the natural coordination of frog choruses, ...

Soil fungi secrete an antibiotic with antitumor activity

A team of scientists from I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (MSMU) together with their colleagues isolated a peptide ...

Possible Oahu populations offer new hope for Hawaiian seabirds

Credit: Lindsay Young The two seabird species unique to Hawaii, Newell's Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels, are the focus of major ...

The diversity of rural African populations extends to their microbiomes

Research from the Perelman School of Medicine and School of Arts and Sciences pointed to a role for lifestyle, geography, ...

Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree

Ancient eel-like creature answers questions about when these bizarre fish branched off the evolutionary tree from other vertebratesCredit: Tetsuto Miyashita, ...

Leaf age determines the division of labor in plant stress responses

Credit: Kenichi Tsuda Unlike animals, plants cannot move freely to escape from life-threatening conditions. This constraint means that they require ...

Unexpected link found between feeding and memory brain areas

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The search for a mechanism that could explain how the protein complex NCOR1/2 regulates memory ...

Genetic study reveals possible new routes to treating osteoarthritis

Scientists discover new genes and biological pathways linked to osteoarthritis, which could help identify starting points for new medicines In ...

Energizing the immune system to eat cancer

Abramson Cancer Center study identifies method of priming macrophages to boost anti-tumor responseCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Immune cells called ...

How staying in shape is vital for reproductive success

New research reveals that cells must keep their shape and proportions to successfully reproduce through cell divisionCredit: Snezhka Oliferenko Cells ...

Scientists discover new 'architecture' in corn

LSU scientists' findings may improve biofuel productionCredit: Tuo Wang, LSU. New research on the U.S.'s most economically important agricultural plant ...

Genetic study provides novel insights into the evolution of skin color

Skin colour is one of the most visible and variable traits among humans and scientists have always been curious about ...

Scientists find genes with large effects on head and brain size