Tag: Biology

Joaquin Espinosa, PhD, and his team investigated the role of hypoxia-inducible factors in tumor growth and suppressionCredit: Joaquin Espinosa, PhD ...

Study: Female monkeys use males as “hired guns” for defense against predators

Female putty-nosed monkeys use calls just to recruit males when certain predators are detectedCredit: C. Kolopp/WCS BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo ...

Getting to the core of HIV replication

HIV-1 viral capsid simulations on XSEDE-allocated Stampede2, Bridges, Darwin systems uncover nucleotide entry mechanismCredit: Xu, et al. Viruses lurk in ...

Attention and working memory: Two sides of the same neural coin?

Princeton neuroscientists have demonstrated that attention and working memory are two sides of the same neural coin; what's more, they ...

Study finds microbial-plant interactions affect the microbial response to climate change

Digging into climate change's impact on microbesCredit: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Steven Allison University of California, Irvine, biologists have ...

Urban growth creates distortions between providers and receivers of ecosystem services

Researchers analyzed socioeconomic and environmental indicators for the 180 municipalities in the mega-region around São Paulo state capital, detecting environmental ...

In search of the first bacterium

Evolutionary biology: Publication in Communications BiologyCredit: HHU / Joana Xavier Roughly five years ago, Institute Head Prof. Dr. William (Bill) ...

Seagrasses turn back the clock on ocean acidification

Expansive study shows seagrass meadows can buffer ocean acidificationCredit: Melissa Ward, UC Davis Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows ...

Why SARS-CoV-2 replicates better in the upper respiratory tract

Credit: © UniBE "SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV are highly similar genetically, generate a homologous repertoire of viral proteins, and use the ...

Scientists pinpoint our most distant animal relatives

Credit: NOAA. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin believe they have pinpointed our most distant animal relative in the tree of ...

UNF biology student awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Credit: University of North Florida Raul Chavarria, a University of North Florida senior majoring in biology with a concentration in ...

Choose life: Why patients in China refuse standard treatment for a type of heart attack

Scientists identify numerous variables that predict the treatment decisions of patients with a type of heart attach called ST-elevation myocardial ...

Neuroscience seminar highlights technologies for brain injuries, vaccines

Credit: Purdue University/Chris Adam WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The same technology that helps treat traumatic brain injuries in athletes and ...

Scientists show technology can save people from shark bites

The deployment of personal electronic deterrents is an effective way to prevent future deaths and injuriesCredit: Professor Corey Bradshaw, Flinders ...

Scientists discover new genetic disease that delays brain development in children

Credit: Gretel Nicholson, EXRC Scientists have discovered a new genetic disease, which causes some children's brains to develop abnormally, resulting ...

Scientists discover unique Cornish ‘falgae’

Credit: Mark Milburn/Atlantic Scuba Red algae that grow in Cornwall's Fal Estuary are genetically unique, new research shows. University of ...

Sounds like home: Murrelets choose breeding locations by eavesdropping on other murrelets

Credit: Brett Lovelace, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers broadcast marbled murrelet calls in mature forests ...

High-fiber diet may play a role in controlling the inflammation associated with COVID-19

In vitro treatment of cells with these molecules reduced the expression of a gene that plays a key role in ...

Everyone poops: Monitoring COVID-19 in wastewater

University of Missouri scientists receive $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine clues about the rate ...

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