Tag: Biology

Certain countries perform significantly better than their neighbors in the effectiveness of their protected areas, finds new study.Credit: Pixabay Researchers ...

DNA reveals the evolutionary history of museum specimens

An international team, led by UNIGE and MHN, has optimized a method for analyzing the genomes of specimens from natural ...

Restless nights: Shelter housed dogs need days to adapt to new surroundings

Nocturnal activity of dogs as an indicator of adaptabilityCredit: Janneke van der Laan Every year, thousands of dogs end up ...

Maria Ermolaeva to present at the 8th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting 2021

Maria Ermolaeva to present new research in the biology of aging at the world's largest aging research for drug discovery ...

Emotions and culture are most important for acceptance of carnivore management strategies

Credit: Photo: Oliver Höner/Leibniz-IZW Emotions towards and cultural importance of large carnivores are better predictors of the acceptance of management ...

Brain injury lab receives additional federal funding to boost research

UC Riverside postdoc and graduate students are recipients of new awardsCredit: Santhakumar lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Earlier this ...

Crystal clear: Lepidopterans have many ways of being transparent

Credit: Nipam Patel Butterflies and moths have beautiful wings: the bright flare of an orange monarch, the vivid stripes of ...

Sweet success: CABBI demonstrates first precision breeding of sugarcane with CRISPR-Cas9

Gene-editing offers a targeted, efficient way to develop new varieties of this productive but complex plantCredit: Amy Stuart, UF/IFAS Sugarcane ...

Selective, toxin-bearing antibodies could help treat liver fibrosis

In mouse models of human disease, immunotoxins targeting the protein mesothelin prevent liver cells from producing collagen, a precursor to ...

Symbionts sans frontieres: Bacterial partners travel the world

Some bacterial symbionts in travel the globe and are true cosmopolitansCredit: Laetitia Wilkins The Lucinidae family, lucinids for short, comprises ...

The fine nose of storks

Smell leads storks to freshly mown meadowsCredit: MPI of Animal Behavior/ C. Ziegler The sharp eyes of an eagle, the ...

HKU ecologists develop a novel forensic tool for detecting laundering of critically endangered cockatoos

Credit: Photo courtesy: Astrid Andersson Ecologists from the Conservation Forensics Laboratory of the Research Division for Ecology and Biodiversity at ...

Naturally abundant venom peptide from ants can activate a pseudo allergic pathway unravelling a novel immunomodulatory pathway of MRGPRX2

Credit: The University of Hong Kong Ants are omnipresent, and we often get blisters after an ant bite. But do ...

MaxDIA — taking proteomics to the next level

A new software improves data-independent acquisition proteomics by providing a computational workflow that permits highly sensitive and accurate data analysisCredit: ...

Human environmental genome recovered in the absence of skeletal remains

Credit: © Anna Belfer-Cohen The cave of Satsurblia was inhabited by humans in different periods of the Paleolithic: Up to ...

Getting to the bottom of all life: Visualizing a protein key to enabling

Scientists reveal the exact process behind the upkeep of one of the cellular components whereCredit: VIPP1 oligomer image from Ben ...

Brandon Jutras receives Emerging Leader Award to advance Lyme disease research

Credit: Virginia Tech. The Bay Area Lyme Foundation, the leading not-for-profit sponsor of Lyme disease research in the United States, ...

Technology that restores the sense of touch in nerves damaged as a result of injury

Cut your finger and lost your sense of touch? There's hope yetCredit: Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University's new and ...

UN’s new global framework for managing nature: 1st detailed draft agreement launched

Draft 1 of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework includes 21 action targets proposed for 2030; Will be considered at UN ...

Remarkable new insights into the pathology of Usher syndrome