Tag: Biology

Credit: Kanazawa University Several processes in the human body are regulated by biochemical reactions involving hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Although it ...

It’s time to bolster women in conservation

Credit: Ruth Konia Women are largely being excluded from decisions about conservation and natural resources, with potentially detrimental effects on ...

Molecular biologist Mohamed Abou featured in new video and article from the Vilcek Foundation

Mohamed Abou Donia is the recipient of a 2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical ScienceCredit: The Vilcek Foundation ...

Biological artificial organs like skin, vessels…now produced more easily

A platform developed for nanopattern-based alignment of multiple cell types and differentiation into desired cells. Implications for shortened drug development ...

Study reveals how egg cells get so big

Oocyte growth relies on physical phenomena that drive smaller cells to dump their contents into a larger cellCredit: Jasmin Imran ...

New ‘split-drive’ system puts scientists in the (gene) driver seat

Researchers develop tunable system that harnesses the spread of cargo carried by gene drivesCredit: Gerard Terradas, UC San Diego Powerful ...

Huntington’s disease driven by slowed protein-building machinery in cells

New study shows that mutant huntingtin protein slows ribosomesCredit: Image by Nicolai Urban of Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience in ...

What can stream quality tell us about quality of life?

Credit: Virginia Tech As the source of most of the water we drink and a place where we often go ...

Species traded legally through Hong Kong with inadequate traceability

Leading to unnoticed over-exploitation of common speciesCredit: The University of Hong Kong Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, due ...

How bone marrow regenerates after chemotherapy

Researchers from Osaka University identify the molecular mechanism underlying bone marrow regeneration after chemotherapyCredit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Chemotherapy ...

‘Falling insect’ season length impacts river ecosystems

Credit: Takuya Sato Insects that fall from the surrounding forest provide seasonal food for fish in streams. Researchers at Kobe ...

Chimpanzees without borders

A new large-scale study uncovers recent genetic connectivity between chimpanzee subspecies despite past isolation eventsCredit: © PanAf Researchers from the ...

RCSI researchers discover new way to halt excessive inflammation

Credit: Patrick Bolger DUBLIN, Friday, 5 March 2021: RCSI researchers have discovered a new way to 'put the brakes' on ...

New Corona test developed

Researchers develop a low-cost and fast method to detect a COVID-19 infection from a pool of gargle lavage samplesCredit: MPI ...

Tracking proteins in the heart of cells

For the first time, a UNIGE team has been able to follow precisely the path taken by a protein within ...

The collapse of Northern California kelp forests will be hard to reverse

Most of Northern California's kelp forest ecosystem is gone, replaced by widespread 'urchin barrens' that may persist long into the ...

Scientists explore the action mechanism of a new antibiotic

Credit: Timur Sabirov/Skoltech Scientists from Skoltech and MSU have investigated antibiotic nybomycin that could prove effective against bacteria resistant to ...

Animal aggression depends on rank within social hierarchies

Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS Humans and animals alike constantly size up one another. In the workplace, a new employee quickly learns ...

Breaking the patrisharky: Scientists reexamine gender biases in shark, ray mating research

New study analyzes biological drivers of multiple paternity in sharks and rays, challenging decades of unbalanced researchCredit: Georgia Aquarium Shark ...

Exploring pieces of heart muscle that fail to compact