Biology

CORVALLIS, Ore. - An Oregon State University researcher is part of a $1.94 million grant to look for possible connections between the human microbiome and autism spectrum disorder. The goal is to use data from the microbiome - the…

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia New funding is enabling Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers to develop new approaches to potentially help people with Prader-Willi syndrome, a devastating and incurable…

Credit: Richard C. Cobb, California Polytechnic State University When a new, more aggressive strain of the pathogen that causes sudden oak death turned up in Oregon, scientists and stakeholders banded together to try to protect…

Study suggests that people with low levels of PDIA1 in blood plasma may be at high risk of thrombosis; this group also investigated PDIA1's specific interactions in cancer Measuring the blood plasma levels of an enzyme called PDIA1 could…

A detailed new model of a bacterial secretion system provides directions for developing precisely targeted antibioticsCredit: Caltech Gastric cancer, Q fever, Legionnaires' disease, whooping cough--though the infectious bacteria that…

The study shows the advantages of herbicide spraying and intensive fertilization in reforestation programs to mitigate the effects of climate changeCredit: Pedro Brancalion An experiment conducted in Brazil in an area of Atlantic…

Credit: University of Texas at Austin For the first time, immunologists from The University of Texas at Austin have captured on video what happens when T-cells - the contract killers of the immune system, responsible for wiping out…

Understanding protein modifications that accelerate Alzheimer's could help researchers develop drugs to target cell degenerationCredit: Royalty-free stock photo ID: 1157052994 Alzheimer's disease: the amyloid-beta peptide accumulates to…

Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- When the bones of an ancient heron were unearthed at a North Florida fossil site, the find wasn't made by researchers but by two Florida Museum of Natural…

Science historians at the University of Jena (Germany) explain Ernst Haeckel's definition of ecologyCredit: (Image: Anne Guenther/FSU) (Jena, Germany) "By ecology, we understand the whole science of the organism's relationship with…