Tag: Biology

Switch to cage-free alternatives for farm animals is possible, but only with appropriate supporting measuresCredit: Kipster Between 2018 and 2020, ...

Lighting the way to folding next-level origami

Recent findings by Slovenian and German scientists artfully explore potential to transform proteins into custom-made structuresCredit: Credit: Fabio Lapenta / ...

Brain damage caused by plasticisers

Bayreuth biologists investigate effects of bisphenols on nerve cellsCredit: Image: Peter Machnik The plasticisers contained in many everyday objects can ...

Early cannabis use linked to heart disease

Credit: University of Guelph Smoking cannabis when you're young may increase your risk of developing heart disease later, according to ...

Blood vessel formation in damaged tissues with mussel adhesive protein

Credit: POSTECH Blood vessels deliver nutrients and oxygen to each organ in our body. They are difficult to completely restore ...

Pandemic-inspired discoveries: New insect species from Kosovo named after the Coronavirus

Credit: Halil Ibrahimi While the new Coronavirus will, hopefully, be effectively controlled sooner rather than later, its latest namesake is ...

Auxin visualized for the first time

A biosensor visualizes redistribution dynamics of the plant hormone auxin in living cellsCredit: S. Shanmugaratnam, A.C. Stiel, M. Kolb A ...

Conservationists may be unintentionally spreading pathogens between threatened animal populations

Credit: David Aldridge Moving endangered species to new locations is often used as part of species conservation strategies, and can ...

CNIO scientists discovers a combination therapy for aggressive brain tumors

Credit: CNIO Glioblastomas are the most common and most aggressive brain tumours. Their survival rate has barely increased over the ...

Shift in diet allowed gray wolves to survive ice-age extinction

Credit: Julius Csotonyi April12, 2021 - Gray wolves are among the largest predators to have survived the extinction at the ...

Brain disease transmitted by tick bites may be treatable

Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at The Rockefeller University Tick-borne encephalitis is a disease just as nasty as it sounds. Once ...

Computer model fosters potential improvements to ‘bionic eye’ technology

Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC develop signals that could bring color vision and improved clarity to prosthesis ...

An on-off switch for gene editing

New, reversible CRISPR method can control gene expression while leaving underlying DNA sequence unchangedCredit: Jennifer Cook-Chrysos/Whitehead Institute Over the past ...

Brain organoids uncover various mechanisms of virus-induced microcephaly

Credit: Copyright: Krenn/CellStemCell/IMBA Researchers at IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences - demonstrate that ...

To nodulate or not? Uncovering how nitrate regulates gene expression in legumes

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that nitrate-induced control of root nodule formation results from varying DNA-binding properties of ...

Popeye with a whiff of rotten eggs

Credit: Huimin Ye An international team of scientists led by microbiologists Professor Alexander Loy from the University of Vienna and ...

Childhood diet and exercise creates healthier, less anxious adults

Study in mice shows lasting effects of early-life habitsCredit: Marcell Cadney/UCR Exercise and a healthy diet in childhood leads to ...

Earth’s crust mineralogy drives hotspots for intraterrestrial life

Credit: ©Matt Kapust Below the verdant surface and organic rich soil, life extends kilometers into Earth's deep rocky crust. The ...

A discovery that “literally changes the textbook”

April 8, 2021

MSU's expertise in fish biology, genetics helping researchers rewrite evolutionary history and shape future health studiesCredit: Reprinted with permission from ...

New Forest Service assessment delivers research on invasive species