Microplastics affect the survival of amphibians and invertebrates in river ecosystems
A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has demonstrated that 15 days' exposure to microplastics affects some freshwater ...
Tag: Developmental/Reproductive Biology
Common feed ingredient tested safe in bulls
Credit: Dan Shike, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Cattle feeders choose distillers grains in feedlot diets as an inexpensive ...
Producing human tissue in space
Credit: NASA On 6 March at 11:50 PM EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off ...
Gene regulatory factors enable bacteria to kill rivals and establish symbiosis in a squid
Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State Two factors that control the expression of a key gene required by luminescent bacteria to ...
West coast dungeness crab stable or increasing even with intensive harvest, research shows
Central California crab numbers rise to an average of five times that of past decadesCredit: NOAA Fisheries/NWFSC The West Coast ...
Thinking in acids and bases
Researchers from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki and Toyohashi University of Technology in Toyohashi develop a probe ...
Older beetle parents ‘less flexible’
Credit: Nick Royle Older parents are less flexible when it comes to raising their offspring, according to a new study ...
Scientists develop new method to distinguish freshly made transcripts from old transcripts
Credit: Nicolas Battich, ©Hubrecht Institute Our bodies consist of trillions of cells that all contain the same DNA. Even though ...
Microbiome species interactions reveal how bacteria collaborate to cheat death
Antibiotics set up a multi-faceted experiment in your gastrointestinal systemCredit: Image is courtesy of Navid Marvi and Andres Aranda-Diaz. Baltimore, ...
Coronavirus treatment and risk to breastfeeding women
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 4, 2020--Little data is available about the ability of antiviral ...
Personalised medicine increases IVF success rate
Credit: Image credit: sathyatripodi from Pixabay. Becoming pregnant can be a lengthy and stressful process for one in every six ...
Nutrient pollution and ocean warming negatively affect early life of corals
Credit: Raphael Ritson-Williams Corals are constantly exposed to multiple environmental stressors at any given time. On a global scale, climate ...
Reitman Foundation funds pilot study of treatments for neonatal abstinence syndrome
Kessler Foundation researchers examine outcomes of neonates who undergo treatment at Children's Specialized Hospital for withdrawal from prenatal exposure to ...
What can you learn by peering into a fruit fly’s gut? It turns out a lot!
Eavesdropping on 'conversations' between gut stem cells and gut bacteriaCredit: Image is courtesy of Leslie Koyama and Lucy O'Brien. Baltimore, ...
How three genes rule plant symbioses
Credit: Pierre-Marc Delaux For billions of years life on Earth was restricted to aquatic environments, the oceans, seas, rivers and ...
GPS for chromosomes: Reorganization of the genome during development
Credit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum The spatial arrangement of genetic material within the cell nucleus plays an important role ...
Sugar-poor diets wreak havoc on bumblebee queens’ health
Study: Flower losses due to shrinking habitats and climate change hurt prime pollinatorsCredit: Jim Whitfield Without enough sugar in their ...
Team deciphers how myotonic dystrophy generates lethal heart dysfunctions
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Roughly 80% of people with myotonic dystrophy - a common form ...
A tadpole with a twist: Left-right asymmetric development of Oikopleura dioica
Researchers at Osaka University find that a tadpole-like tunicate with nonconventional left-right patterning lacks the Nodal gene found in other ...
MicroRNA regulates process vital to placenta growth in early pregnancy
University of South Florida medical researchers applied CRISPR technology to study the function of a very large human non-protein coding ...