Tag: Biology

Credit: ETH Zurich The rate at which evolution produces new species of plants and animals, or at which existing species ...

Ten group leaders across Europe supported by EMBO Installation Grants

Heidelberg, 18 December 2018 - EMBO announces today the award of ten Installation Grants to early-career researchers establishing their independent ...

29 joint research projects for Berlin and Oxford

Berlin partners and the University of Oxford consolidate their cooperation The research partnership between the University of Oxford and the ...

HPV discovery raises hope for new cervical cancer treatments

Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have made a ...

Genetic cause of ALS and frontotemporal dementia blocked by RNA-binding compound

Credit: Courtesy of Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - Since the ice bucket challenge went viral in 2014, raising awareness and ...

Mysteries of the primrose unraveled

Credit: University of East Anglia Plant scientists at the University of East Anglia have succeeded in unravelling the complete genome ...

Hurricane Maria gave ecologists rare chance to study how tropical dry forests recover

To counteract the damage hurricanes have caused to their canopies, trees appear to adjust key characteristics of their newly grown ...

Using endangered barbary macaques as photo props could negatively impact Moroccan tourism

Contact with captive macaques perceived as unacceptable and potential health; safety riskCredit: Kristina Stazaker Wild animals are increasingly exploited for ...

How much are we learning? Natural selection is science's best critic

Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- In 2003, the Human Genome Project revealed to the world the three billion chemical units ...

Tiny implantable device short-circuits hunger pangs, aids weight loss

MADISON, Wis. -- More than 700 million adults and children worldwide are obese, according to a 2017 study that called ...

UC San Diego awarded $2 million to advance algae-based renewable polymers

Department of Energy funds 'bio-economy' project for novel manufacturing of algae-based biopolymersCredit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications A team of ...

Study suggests CBD may worsen glaucoma, raise eye pressure

Research in mice suggests over-the-counter substance could possess unknown side effectsCredit: Straiker Lab, Indiana University One of the most commonly ...

Plant biologists identify mechanism behind transition from insect to wind pollination

Credit: David Timerman TORONTO, ON (Canada) - New research by scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) offers ...

Switch-in-a-cell electrifies life

Rice University scientists create electrical protein switches triggered by chemicalsCredit: Illustration by Josh Atkinson/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 17, 2018) ...

Baboon sexes differ in how social status gets 'under the skin'

Status-health connection depends, in part, on what it takes to get aheadCredit: Photo by Elizabeth Archie, University of Notre Dame ...

Sphinx molecule to rescue African farmers from witchweed

Discovery of a hypersensitive suicide germination stimulantCredit: ITbM, Nagoya University An interdisciplinary team led by researchers at Nagoya University has ...

Lifespan extension at low temperatures is genetically controlled, study suggests

Credit: Michael Shribak and Kristin Gribble WOODS HOLE, Mass. --Why do we age? Despite more than a century of research ...

Scientists revealed how water fleas settled during the Ice Age

Credit: Elena Zuykova, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RA New study shows that the roots used by ...

Warning over deep-sea 'gold rush'

Credit: DJ Amon & CR Smith A "gold rush" of seabed mining could lead to unprecedented damage to fragile deep-sea ...

Study suggests promising new Rx target for obesity and diabetes