Tag: Developmental/Reproductive Biology

Credit: Albin Andersson The insecticide clothianidin affects different species of bees in different ways. While it has no demonstrably negative ...

Soft tissue makes coral tougher in the face of climate change

Credit: Raphael Ritson-Williams Climate change and ocean warming threaten coral reefs and disrupt the harmonious relationship between corals and their ...

New approach to repair fetal membranes may prevent birth complications

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London and University College London have developed a new approach to repair defects in ...

Scientists define the role for a rare, influential set of bone marrow cells

Researchers have defined the roles of various cells in the bone marrow that are thought to control the fate of ...

Study shows zoos and aquariums increase species knowledge index 800 percent

Previously untapped information sheds light on extinction timelines for mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibiansCredit: Species360 Conservation Science Alliance Despite volumes ...

The kids are alright

Family quarrels in seeds reveal the ways parents and offspring sometimes evolve in conflicting directions It's spring, finally -- and ...

Protecting damaged hearts with microRNAs

New research advances the possibility of regenerating cardiac tissue after a heart attackCredit: Wang Lab/Boston Children's Hospital and Nature Communications ...

Island lizards are expert sunbathers, and researchers find it’s slowing their evolution

Credit: Virginia Tech If you've ever spent some time in the Caribbean, you might have noticed that humans are not ...

Study finds that quitting smoking during pregnancy lowers risk of preterm births

April 19, 2019

There is an important association between maternal cigarette smoking cessation during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth, according to a ...

Bioengineers program cells as digital signal processors

Synthetic biologists add tunable, analog-to-digital converter to their toolkitCredit: Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 18, 2019) -- Synthetic biologists have ...

Taming the genome’s ‘jumping’ sequences

The human genome is fascinating. Once predicted to contain about a hundred thousand protein-coding genes, it now seems that the ...

Rare genetic change provides clues to pancreas development

Understanding pancreas formation could aid research into type 1 diabetes treatments Researchers have discovered a key clue into the development ...

Growing a cerebral tract in a microscale brain model

Tokyo - It takes a lot of connections to create human intelligence. Brain function depends on contacts between multiple regions ...

3D modelling identifies nutrient exchange in the human placenta