Electric fish in augmented reality reveal how animals 'actively sense' world around them
Credit: Credit: NJIT/Johns Hopkins. Bats and dolphins emit sound waves to sense their surroundings; like a battery, electric fish generate ...
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Insilico to present on aging biomarkers at Longevity Therapeutics Summit 2019 in San Francisco
Credit: Insilico Medicine Friday, December 21, 2018 - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing ...
300 blind mice uncover genetic causes of eye disease
Hundreds of new genes linked to blindness and other vision disorders have been identified in a screen of mouse strains. ...
Bees can count with just four nerve cells in their brains
Credit: Lars Chittka Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, ...
Cholesterol-lowering drugs reduce brown adipose tissue
A certain proportion of the adult population has not only white adipose (or fatty) tissue, but also the brown kind. ...
Female penises evolved twice in bark lice
Credit: Yoshizawa et al. Biology Letters, Nov. 21, 2018 In a group of bark lice, a penis has evolved twice ...
Wildlife struggle to cope with extreme weather
Credit: Creative Commons CC0. The mass death of flying foxes in extreme heat in North Queensland last month underscores the ...
Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
An important step for regenerative medicine Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the stem cell institute HI-STEM* ...
Structure and function of photosynthesis protein explained in detail
Photosynthetic complex I is a key element in photosynthetic electron transport, but little has been known about it so farCredit: ...
Looking at molecules from two sides with table-top femtosecond soft-X-rays
Credit: MBI Berlin X-ray spectroscopy provides direct access into the nature of chemical bonds, from which the outcome of chemical ...
Forget-me-not: Scientists pinpoint memory mechanism in plants
Plant scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham have unravelled a mechanism that enables flowering plants to sense and ...
More young and other traits help mammals adapt to urban environments
Species of mammals that live in urban environments produce more young compared to other mammals. But next to this common ...
Bird migration and conservation clues in robin and Turtle dove genomes
The European robin and Turtle dove have had their genetic codes sequenced and assembled for the first time The European ...
Health checkups for alpine lakes
University of Alberta biologists show that zooplankton are excellent bioindicators for mountain lakes in North AmericaCredit: Charlie Loewen The best ...
Scientists uncover how protein clumps damage cells in Parkinson's
Enzymes modify tau to create tau-alpha-synuclein clumps on mitochondriaCredit: Courtesy Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - Biologists studying Parkinson's disease have ...
Leprosy declines in Morocco after implementation of preventive drug
Credit: Mary Gillham Archive Project, Flickr, CC BY 2.0, 2017 Since 2012, the number of cases of leprosy in Morocco ...
Researchers make world's smallest tic-tac-toe game board with DNA
The technology could be used to develop more sophisticated nanomachines with reconfigurable partsCredit: Qian Lab/Caltech Move over Mona Lisa, here ...
For gait transitions, stability often trumps energy savings
Test results from mammals and birds emphasize risk reductionCredit: Caleb Bryce from the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust A dog's gait, ...
AIDS — an approach for targeting HIV reservoirs
Credit: © Institut Pasteur / Nicolas Huot Current HIV treatments need to be taken for life by those infected as ...
The idiosyncratic mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs
Researchers state that many mammals lineages coexisted with the dinosaurs before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Although many species of mammals ...
