Experts identify 'tipping point' in tree disease outbreaks
New models which can predict the critical point at which plant pests and diseases shift from being a localised problem ...
Tag: Biology
The importance of 'edge populations' to biodiversity
Protecting plants at the northern limit of their range may help species survive climate changeCredit: Hargreaves/McGill University More than two-thirds ...
Dive-bombing for love: Male hummingbirds dazzle females with a highly synchronized display
Male broad-tailed hummingbirds synchronize speed, sound and a flash of their iridescent throat feathers in a dramatic courtship dive to ...
Gut microbiome regulates the intestinal immune system, researchers find
Credit: Vaishnava Lab/Immunity PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Scientist have long known that bacteria in the intestines, also known as the microbiome, ...
Deciphering infanticide
Research points to chemical and sensory cues that trigger infant-directed aggressive behavior in male mice It may seem like one ...
Register for the JGI 14th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting
The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) 14th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting takes place April 2-5, 2019 at ...
Scientists gain insights into traffic cop function of gene expression protein
UNC scientists led by Brian Strahl, PhD, and Raghuvar Dronamraju, Ph.D., uncovered a key regulatory step in gene expression that ...
Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought
The discovery in China of fossil specimens of a flower called Nanjinganthus from the Early Jurassic shakes up widely accepted ...
Extraordinary 'faithful father' revealed by study of smooth guardian frog of Borneo
Credit: Johana Goyes Vallejos LAWRENCE -- Stay-at-home dads might find their spirit animal in the smooth guardian frog of Borneo. ...
The CNIO and Hospital 12 de Octubre find a potential new combination therapy against a rare disease
Credit: CNIO Myelofibrosis is a severe and very rare haematological disease for which treatment has only been partially effective to ...
Salmon may lose the ability to smell danger as carbon emissions rise
Credit: Andy Dittman/Northwest Fisheries Science Center The ability to smell is critical for salmon. They depend on scent to avoid ...
Two ways cancer resists treatment are actually connected, with one activating the other
Penn study identifies chain reaction in cells that helps cancer survive treatments that target BRAF mutationsCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - ...
A versatile vaccine that can protect mice from emerging tick-borne viruses
Credit: VanBlargan et al./Cell Reports A group of researchers led by Michael Diamond of Washington University School of Medicine in ...
Explaining differences in rates of evolution
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 ...
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