Tag: Biology

Study hopes to aid aviation authorities worldwide to protect wildlife and prevent costly damage.Credit: Samantha Ball UCC - World's wildlife, ...

Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2

Credit: Dr Robert Beyer Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne ...

Mapping hotspots of undersized fish and crustaceans may aid sustainable fishing practices

Credit: G. Milisenda and coathors A new study in Frontiers in Marine Science provides a first-of-its-kind evaluation of which regions ...

Nehandertals’ gut microbiota and the bacteria helping our health

Credit: University of Bologna Neanderthals' gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine. ...

SSRgenotyper: A new tool to digitally genotype simple sequence repeats

Credit: Lewis, D. H., D. E. Jarvis, and P. J. Maughan. 2020. SSRgenotyper: A simple sequence repeat genotyping application for ...

In symbiosis: Plants control the genetics of microbes

Credit: University of Ottawa/ Microscope Laboratory (Ottawa-RDC, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) Researchers from the University of Ottawa have discovered that ...

Role of cell cycle on analyzing telomerase activity with a fluorescence off-on system

Credit: @Science China Press Cancer is a significant cause of death worldwide and many efforts have been devoted to the ...

Garlic and selenium increase stress resistance in carps, says a RUDN University biologist

Credit: RUDN University A biologist from RUDN University confirmed that selenium nanoparticles and garlic extract can effectively reduce the negative ...

DNA-based technique allows researchers to determine age of living beluga whales in Alaska

Credit: Paul Wade, NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center. NEWPORT, Ore. - Researchers can now determine the age and sex of ...

Ultimately, beneficial fungi could be more effective than pesticides against nematodes

Credit: J.O. Becker Over the past 30 years, the use of soil fumigants and nematicides used to protect cole crops, ...

MARLIT, artificial intelligence against marine litter

Litter that floats and pollutes the oceanCredit: Àlex Aguilar (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA - IRBio) Floating sea macro-litter is a threat ...

Songbirds exposed to lead-contaminated water show telltale signs about human impacts

Credit: Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock / Xavier MARCHANT Humans, wildlife, and the environment are all interconnected and play a ...

Fossil pigments shed new light on vertebrate evolution

UCC palaeontologists have discovered new evidence that the fate of vertebrate animals over the last 400 million years has been ...

Surprising new research: We’re more like primitive fishes than once believed

Credit: Dr. Guojie Zhang People traditionally think that lungs and limbs are key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition ...

Fast-flying bats rely on late-night updrafts to reach great heights

Credit: Teague O'Mara Although scientists knew that some bats could reach heights of over 1,600 meters (or approximately one mile) ...

SARS-CoV-2 under the helium ion microscope for the first time

Bielefeld researchers provide 3D images of coronavirusesCredit: Photo left: Bielefeld University/M.-D. Müller, photo right: Thomas Popien Scientists at Bielefeld University's ...

New methods for exploring the ‘dark matter’ of biology

New tools and methods have been described by WEHI researchers to study an unusual protein modification and gain fresh insights ...

Researchers identify “rescue” mechanism that helps cells survive malfunctioning split

Credit: Masashi Yukawa & Takashi Toda, Hiroshima University Cells replicate their genetic material and divide into two identical clones, perpetuating ...

Deadly white-nose syndrome changed genes in surviving bats

Study has big implications for management of bat populationsCredit: Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn Scientists have found genetic differences between bats killed by ...

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