Biology

Credit: WEHI, Australia Australian and European researchers have released updated, evidence-based guidance for managing iron deficiency, a serious worldwide health problem. Iron deficiency is a major cause of anaemia, a lack of…

The rapid, one-step mobile test could help combat the pandemic and fully reopen communities SAN FRANCISCO, CA--December 4, 2020--Imagine swabbing your nostrils, putting the swab in a device, and getting a read-out on your phone in 15 to 30…

Credit: IOCAS Pyroptosis is a highly inflammatory form of programmed necrotic cell death that acts as a defense mechanism against the infection of bacterial and viral pathogens. Pyroptosis is executed by gasdermin, a family of…

Discovery 'requires us to rethink everything we thought we knew about peroxisomes'Credit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 4, 2020) - In his first year of graduate school, Rice University biochemist…

Credit: RUDN University Researchers from the Department of Biochemistry of RUDN University developed a wound-healing gel based on a substance that is produced by Trichoderma fungi. The results of the study were published in the…

According to the Chair in Law and the Human Genome at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), immunity passports may be valid, depending on how they are used Immunity passports are a means of registering whether an individual has…

New technology helps scientists better understand how highly migratory species are responding to a changing oceanCredit: Matt Bernanke - SharkTagging.com MIAMI--Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of…

New computational tools developed at Stony Brook University help characterize protein structures and identify new treatments for COVID-19Credit: Lucy Fallon, Laufer Center, Stony Brook University In the last five decades, we've learned a…

Turning off gene-editing until it reaches cell cycle phases where more accurate repairs are likely to happen offers a promising fix to CRISPR-Cas9's problem with unwanted genetic changes A group of researchers developed a promising fix…

More bird species in their vicinity increase life satisfaction of Europeans as much as higher incomeCredit: Stefan Bernhardt Under the current pandemic conditions, activities out in nature are a popular pastime. The beneficial…

Credit: RUDN University Biologists from RUDN University working together with their colleagues from the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Flax studied the genes that…

Credit: Adam Steinbrenner/University of Washington For a caterpillar, a green leaf can make a nice meal. But to the plant itself, it's an attack. And very hungry caterpillars can do a lot of damage as they eat their way through…

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications There are few moments in life as precious, as critical and as celebrated as baby's first breath. New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine sheds light on the lifelong…

Max Planck Institute for plant breeding researchCredit: Jijie Chai Although separated by millions of years of evolution, plants and animals have independently alighted upon similar innate immune strategies to protect themselves…

Recent study conducted at a UK fishery farm provides new evidence that DNA from water samples can accurately determine fish abundance and biomassCredit: Dr. Watson H.V. Organisms excrete DNA in their surroundings through…

New insights into protein structures could help inform drug development and predict future outbreaksCredit: Rodrigues et al. 2020 (CC-BY 2.0) Some animals are more susceptible to Covid-19 infection than others, and new research…

A study published in Ecological Monographs shows that sugar maple microbiomes change from north to south along the transition from coniferous to deciduous forestCredit: Geneviève Lajoie. Forest leaves are teeming with…

Study by Brazilian researchers reported in Nature Communications shows that trees are growing faster in forests worldwide, including the Amazon, but their lives are getting shorterCredit: Roel Brienen/University of Leeds Accelerating…

Credit: Allison Usavage, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - For homeowners, sod producers and turf industry professionals, keeping pests from feeding on valuable turfgrass has been both challenging and costly due to limited monitoring and…

One step closer to a brain prosthesis for the blind There are around 40 million blind people in the world. Many of them would not benefit from a treatment of the eyes, e.g. in cases with damage to the optical nerve, where the connection…