Tag: Biology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Credit: Copyright Wellcome Library, London Children's heads expand steadily to accommodate their growing brains and doctors routinely measure head circumference ...

Freshwater shark lived in South Dakota, had teeth shaped like 'Galaga' spaceshipsCredit: (c) Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum SUE the T. ...

Night-time pollinators benefit from street lights being switched off in the middle of the night Switching off street lights to ...

DiscoveryCredit: UT Arlington Herpetologists at The University of Texas at Arlington have described a previously unknown species of snake that ...

Salk researchers used the latest DNA sequencing technologies to study exactly what happens at a molecular level when they insert ...