Tag: Biology

Credit: Antonio Iavarone / Columbia University Immunotherapy has proved effective in treating a number of cancers, but brain tumors have ...

Insilico Medicine to showcase its AI Engine for Future Drug Discovery at the 2018 Future Tech Forum

Artur Kadurin, Chief AI Officer and CEO of Insilico Taiwan, to present 'AI in Drug Discovery Creates the Best Era ...

A glimmer of hope for the world's coral reefs

The future of the world's coral reefs is uncertain, as the impact of global heating continues to escalateCredit: Justin Marshall ...

Small but versatile

Key players in the marine nitrogen cycle can utilize cyanate and ureaCredit: © K. Kitzinger / Max Planck Institute for ...

Interventions in dog populations could reduce rabies in rural China

Credit: Tian H, et al. (2018) Domestic dogs play a key role in the transmission and expansion of rabies in ...

Successful bladder repair using silk fibroid scaffolds

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 10, 2018--A team of researchers developed a novel model of ...

DNA find

Tiny Australian wallaby the last living link to extinct giant kangaroosCredit: Joseph Burgess A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) led ...

The fauna in the Antarctica is threatened by pathogens humans spread in polar latitudes

When the human species infects other living beingsCredit: Jacob González-Solís (University of Barcelona-IRBio) The new study, which detected bacteria from ...

Plants as antifungal factories

The results of this research published in the Plant Biotechnology Journal could impact the pharmaceutical and agri-food industriesCredit: CRAG Researchers ...

Cancer cells distinguished by artificial intelligence-based system

Osaka University researchers have developed a system using artificial intelligence that can automatically differentiate between different types of cancer cellCredit: ...

Finland chooses sustainable fashion — a gown made of birch in time for the holidays

An Aalto University-designed and -produced dress made of birch trees shows how one day we will all look -- and ...

Invasive species and habitat loss our biggest biodiversity threats

Credit: Hugh McGregor/Arid Recovery Invasive species and habitat loss are the biggest threats to Australian biodiversity, according to new research ...

Undiplomatic immunity: Mutation causing arterial autoimmune disease revealed

Credit: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) researchers reveal how a single mutation in a regulatory ...

Obesity, risk of cognitive dysfunction? Consider high-intensity interval exercise

Study first to use high-intensity interval exercise on obese individuals to test effects on cognitive dysfunctionCredit: Department of Exercise Science ...

How does cancer spread?

Researchers pinpoint a gene that affects cell-to-cell communication leading to the diseaseCredit: McGill University Health Centre Montreal, December 10 2018 ...

Increasing seal population will not harm largest fish stocks in the Baltic

Credit: Jan Kansanen Seals feeding on fish does not decrease fish stocks of Baltic cod, herring and sprat the most ...

Study: Damning evidence of dam's impacts on rainforest birds

A 30-year old hydroelectric project in Thailand has caused rainforest bird communities to collapseCredit: Wich'yanan Limparungpatthanakij BANGKOK, Thailand (December 7, ...

One out of 3 rivers in the Iberian Peninsula is affected by salinization

Current map of river salinizationCredit: Rubén Ladrera, University of La Rioja (Spain) These are some of the red lines revealed ...

Molecular insights into spider silk

Credit: Figure: Hannes Neuweiler/Universität Würzburg They are lightweight, almost invisible, highly extensible and strong, and of course biodegradable: the threads ...

Researchers evaluate pMSCs sheets for engineered repair and regeneration of heart tissue