Biology

A University of Central Florida doctoral researcher is leading a first-of-its-kind genetic rescue translocation of Florida scrub-jays, combining genomics, long-term...

Proteomic analysis of the thermophilic bacterium Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum has revealed two Gram-positive polysaccharide utilization loci that explain how the microbe...

New research shows that the invasive cordgrass Spartina anglica outcompetes its native relative not by recruiting different microbes, but by...

Researchers have isolated a human gut bacterium, Mitsuokella jalaludinii PMC73, that lowers uric acid, suppresses NLRP3 inflammasome-driven inflammation, and showed...

New research shows the essential splicing factor BRR2a doubles as a repressor that keeps stress-inducible genes silent in Arabidopsis until...

A new review in Frontiers in Zoology synthesizes the phylogeny, biogeography, genetic diversity, and adaptive evolution of treeshrews and charts...

A new Australian study finds that regular handling by trained zoo staff was not associated with negative welfare effects in...

Adding cellulose fibers to Streptomyces cultures shrinks pellets, reduces many known antibiotics, and uncouples metabolite production from each species' biosynthetic...

New research in Aging Cell shows that natural killer cell numbers, maturation, and antitumor function decline during midlife obesity, particularly...

Engineered mutations in the SAP domain of the foot-and-mouth disease virus leader proteinase attenuate the virus while preserving its replication...