Tag: Biology

Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in ...

Obstacles on the racetrack of life

Credit: Sandy Westermann The corona pandemic has ensured that the term "mRNA" is now also known to a large public ...

Genome studies: More is not always better

Credit: Arthur Korte What the fruit fly is to zoologists, the thale cress is to botanists. The widespread herb with ...

Quantum physics helps destroy cancer cells

Researchers have found a way to enhance radiation therapy using novel iodine nanoparticlesCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto University iCeMS Cancer cell death ...

Baylor study evaluates biodiversity impacts of alternative energy strategies

Baylor researcher Ryan McManamay considers ecosystem footprint of climate mitigation energy pathwaysCredit: Robert Rogers, Baylor University WACO, Texas (July 13, ...

Impairments found in neurons derived from people with schizophrenia and genetic mutation

UMass Amherst molecular neuroscientist continues research with $2.25 million grantCredit: UMass Amherst A scientific team has shown that the release ...

Microcrystal electron diffraction supports a new drug development pipeline

Credit: Bruhn, J. et al. Front. Mol. Biosci., 2021 8, 354. CAMBRIDGE July 13, 2021 - To date, solving structures ...

Allocating COVID-19 vaccines based on health and socioeconomics could reduce mortality

Study suggests spatial relationship between COVID-19 mortality and population-level health factorsCredit: Kandula S and Shaman J, 2021, PLOS Medicine COVID-19 ...

Less is more: the efficient brain structural and dynamic organization

Credit: @Science China Press The human brain has extreme ability in thinking and computation, but it only requires a very ...

Photorhabdus Virulence Cassette as a causative agent in Photorhabdus asymbiotica

Credit: @Science China Press Contractile injection systems (CISs) are widely distributed in bacteria and archaea that can form a nanomachine ...

The two-thousand-year-old mystery of the havoc-wreaking worm

New research reveals that we know less about the history-altering shipworm than we thoughtCredit: Barry Goodell AMHERST, Mass. - Humans ...

Long-term memory setup requires a reliable delivery crew

Synaptic plasticity depends on molecular hauler KIF5C, carrier of more than 650 RNAs, study findsCredit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research ...

COVID-causing coronavirus following predictable mutational footsteps

Similarities in locations, types of mutations could inform responses to future SARS-CoV-2 strainsCredit: Scott Schrage, University of Nebraska-Lincoln New research ...

Blood test can track the evolution of coronavirus infection

A blood test that quantifies the protein ACE2, the cellular protein which allows entry of the virus into cells, as ...

Empathy may drive rats and other mammals to help friends over strangers

A new study identifies the brain regions involved in rats' tendency to help members of their own social group over ...

Preventing lung cancer’s unwelcome return

Credit: Sordella lab/CSHL, 2021 When a doctor gives a patient antibiotics for a bacterial infection, they usually require them to ...

Keeping the world up to date on irritable bowel syndrome research in China

Scientists condense Chinese studies over the past decade on this common gastrointestinal disorder in a review articleCredit: Chinese Medical Journal ...

Electric signals between individual cardiac cells regulate heartbeat

Cells are connected by gap junctions, which are vital for a healthy heart.Credit: André G. Kléber WASHINGTON, July 13, 2021 ...

Farm robots are the future; let’s start preparing now, researcher argues

Credit: Natalis Lorenz No longer science fiction, farm robots are already here--and they have created two possible extremes for the ...

TSUBAME supercomputer predicts cell-membrane permeability of cyclic peptides