Tag: Biology

In partnership with the USDA Forest Service, University of Missouri researchers developed a system to prioritize most toxic pollutants.Credit: Missouri ...

Study of chilli genetics could lead to greater variety on our plates

Credit: World Vegetable Center Scientists investigating the genetics of chilli pepper species have discovered a whole host of new chilli ...

Female salmon are dying at higher rates than male salmon

Credit: UBC Female adult sockeye from the Fraser River are dying at significantly higher rates than their male counterparts on ...

How grasslands respond to climate change

Effects of CO2 increase were already apparent in the past centuryCredit: Rothamsted Research "Based on field experiments with increased carbon ...

Tiny currents may impact vital ocean food source

Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Copepods are tiny crustaceans about the size of a grain of rice, but they ...

Automatic trail cameras keep wildlife research going during pandemic

Researchers share how trail cameras enabled science to continue even without fieldworkCredit: Austin Green/University of Utah For scientists, especially graduate ...

Beware of fellow bacteria bearing gifts: Skoltech research presents new potential antimicrobial agen

Credit: Pavel Odinev/Skoltech Skoltech researchers examined the antibiotic compounds that employ a 'Trojan horse' strategy to get into a bacterial ...

First 3D images of a giant molecule

Credit: Jyotishman Veepaschit / Team Fischer SMN or in full Survival Motor Neuron: Professor Utz Fischer has been analyzing this ...

Quantitative detection of fatty liver disease by assessing fat distribution in the liver

A noninvasive method for quantifying fat content in liver can aid medical research and diagnosis of liver diseasesCredit: Tokyo University ...

Older than expected: Teeth reveal the origin of the tiger shark

Credit: © Michael Vogelsang / www.seapicture.de The tiger shark is one of the largest predatory sharks known today. This shark ...

Scaled, armoured or naked: how does the skin of fish evolve?

Researchers at the UNIGE have traced the family tree of ray-finned fish in order to reconstruct the evolution of the ...

Bees form scent-driven phone tree to pass along messages

Credit: Peleg Lab Honeybees play a scent-driven game of telephone to guide members of a colony back to their queen, ...

Neutrons reveal unpredicted binding between SARS-CoV-2, hepatitis C antiviral drug

Credit: Jill Hemman and Michelle Lehman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists have found new, unexpected behaviors when SARS-CoV-2 - the ...

Arsenal used by parasite to affect cellular defense and enhance leishmaniasis is revealed

Group affiliated with a FAPESP-supported research center showed that the parasite blocks the action of an enzyme using autophagyCredit: Renan ...

Highlands of diversity: Another new chameleon from the Bale region, Ethiopia

Credit: Koppetsch et al. The Bale Mountains in south-central Ethiopia are considered to be one of the most unique centers ...

How human cells coordinate the start of DNA replication

Credit: Manzar Hossain/Stillman lab/CSHL, 2021 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) President and CEO Bruce Stillman has been dissecting DNA replication, ...

Changes in Antarctic marine ecosystems

Intensity of phytoplankton production during Antarctic summer affects the structure of seafloor ecosystemsCredit: Lluís Cardona (UB-IRBio) Understanding the evolution of ...

A divided visual field

Credit: (Image: Anna Stoeckl / University of Wuerzburg) Hummingbird hawkmoths are small insects that hover in the air like hummingbirds ...

Corals may need their predators’ poop

Coral-eating fish excrete symbiotic algae by the millions, may keep reefs healthyCredit: Photo by Alex Veglia/Rice University HOUSTON - (March ...

BioRescue develops ethical risk assessment for northern white rhino rescue programme