Biology

Prestigious award establishes the USC-Buck Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging. The University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have…

In March, researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering-- a shared department in the schools of Dental Medicine, Medicine, and Engineering--began to develop a new, low-cost, CRISPR-based diagnostic platform to detect infectious…

Credit: RUB, Marquard How do birds make decisions and which brain regions are particularly active when they solve tasks? Researchers from the Department of Biopsychology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) are investigating these…

The hour-long sessions will focus on different areas of brain research and feature expert speakers, with the goal of highlighting the HBP's scientific achievements and the state-of-the-art services offered by its new infrastructure for…

Credit: Wataru Yamamoto WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Although it may seem counterintuitive, researchers are turning to an animal without a brain to crack the neural code underlying behavior. Hydra vulgaris, a tiny, tentacled,…

Credit: Andrew Muroyama The stem cells tasked with creating and maintaining biological tissues have a difficult job. They have to precisely divide to form new specialized cells, which are destined to different fates even…

Clinicians, researchers, patients and the general public are invited to submit questions that could be answered by COVID-19 patient medical record data from 200+ hospitalsCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences As the COVID-19 pandemic…

Credit: Thomas Ried, NCI Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Understanding the specific mutations that contribute to different forms of cancer is critical to improving diagnosis and…

Credit: Nikos Fatsis-Kavalopoulos Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method to determine - rapidly, easily and cheaply - how effective two antibiotics combined can be in stopping bacterial growth. The new method…

In January 2018, China stopped accepting most plastic recyclables from Western nations. Within days, there was no hiding just how much plastic nations were producing and consuming. Piles of plastic sprung up in Britain, Europe, Canada,…

Hoboken, N.J --September 17, 2020-- John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) and the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) are pleased to announce their open access publishing partnership for the Journal of…

Credit: Department of Molecular Neuroscience,TMDU Tokyo, Japan -- Migraines affect millions of people worldwide, often lasting days and severely disrupting lives. More than simply super-intense headaches, some migraines actually…

New research relates shell shapes and body geometries and sizes with swimming abilities and sinking behaviors, which impact vertical migration and distribution.Credit: Zooplankton Ecology Lab, BIOS A new study published in…

Research consortium led by Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and CWRU CLEVELAND, September 17, 2020 -- A team led by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research…

A CRISPR-based test developed at MIT and the Broad Institute can detect nearly as many cases as the standard Covid-19 diagnosticCredit: MIT/Broad Institute CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers at MIT…

Coleen Murphy found the key to multi-generational pathogen avoidance: a small RNA called P11Credit: Illustration by Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca Moore and Coleen Murphy When humans see their children about to eat something they oughtn't, we can…

A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) explains the advantage that animals have of using a specific type of chaotic type of movement called a "Lévy walk," and how this type of behavior emerges.…

The spike protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can adopt at least ten distinct structural states, when in contact with the human virus receptor ACE2, according to research from the Francis Crick Institute published in…

Credit: (c) Dr Deirdre Mikkelsen, The University of Queensland The secret of how fibre shapes the structure of plant cell walls has been revealed, with potentially wide-ranging applications ranging from nutrition and health…

The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) have joined forces to support eight new Regenerative Medicine research partnerships. In this landmark collaboration, MRC and AMED will…