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April 24, 2024
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Apr. 23, 2024 — Researchers describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins -- essential building blocks of life -- to create cells that look and act like cells from the body. This accomplishment, a first in the field, has implications for efforts in ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — The fossilized remains of a second gigantic jawbone measuring more than two meters long has been found on a beach in Somerset, ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery regarding number sense in animals by confirming the existence of discrete number sense in rats, offering a crucial animal model for investigating the neural basis of numerical ability and disability ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — A series of whole genome and gene duplication events that go back hundreds of millions of years have laid the foundations for tissue-specific gene expression, according to a new study. The ...
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Apr. 24, 2024 — Scientists are using artificial intelligence software to analyze plant root systems, laying out a protocol that can be applied to gather data on crop ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Many American companies are relying on carbon offsets to reduce their carbon footprint, especially those who have pledged to achieve 'net-zero emissions.' Sequestering carbon in forests is an example ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers have found that people following healthy eating accounts on social media for as little as two weeks ate more fruit and vegetables and ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Researchers have now discovered viruses that infect this harmful microbe. Named Naegleriavirus, these belong to ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A new study sheds light on how parasites, often overlooked, can dramatically affect the balance between predator and prey populations. Researchers developed a groundbreaking mathematical framework ...
Scientists Discover the Cellular Functions of a Family of Proteins Integral to Inflammatory Diseases
Apr. 22, 2024 — In a scientific breakthrough, researchers have revealed the biological mechanisms by which a family of proteins known as histone deacetylases (HDACs) ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers have developed a deep learning tool that is capable of reliably diagnosing moon blindness in horses based on ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — As wildfires in Siberia become more common, global climate modeling estimates significant impacts on climate, air quality, health, and economies in East Asia and across the northern ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine invertebrates called octocorals, according to the results of a new study. The study focuses on an ancient ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Researchers find less Salmonella on backyard poultry farms. But concerns remain about the prevalance of multidrug-resistant bacteria on both large ...
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Apr. 24, 2024 — The enzyme PI3K plays a critical role in cell migration. Scientists have long understood this function. But researchers have recently unveiled that a subunit of this enzyme also has the ability to ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A rapidly spreading virus threatens the health of the cacao tree and the dried seeds from which chocolate is made, jeopardizing the global supply of the world's most popular treat. Researchers ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A study suggests timely reporting and investigating of livestock abortions is feasible in rural areas and can provide insights into emerging infectious ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A research team has synthesized a lysin that during in vitro experiments targets bacteria responsible for producing odors in human ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Dengue infections in pregnant women may have a negative impact on the first years of children's lives, new research has ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Palaeontologists have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs preserve their fleshy parts -- it's all down to their skin. Palaeontologists studied 45-million-year-old fossil ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A study of shallow-water fish communities on rocky reefs in south-eastern Australia has found climate change is helping tropical fish species invade temperate Australian ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A new study has revealed breeding less-flatulent cows and restoring agricultural land could significantly reduce rising methane emission levels, which play a considerable role in climate ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — New study finds microbes may influence the taste of mustard ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method to use an image generation AI model to create realistic images of single cells, which are then used as 'synthetic data' to train an AI model to better ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — New research has shown that cells regulate cAMP/PKA signaling by forming liquid droplets that segregate excess PKA catalytic subunits where they can do no harm. Some cancers may block the formation ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — While most parents of preschool and elementary aged children strive to give their children a balanced, nutritional diet, some of their strategies to promote healthy eating may backfire, a national ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Researchers used structured light and switchable fluorescent molecules to reduce the background light from the out-of-plane regions of microscope samples. This method allowed for the acquisition of ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Some pathogens hide inside human cells to enhance their survival. Researchers have uncovered a unique tactic certain bacteria use to spread in the body without being detected by the immune system. In ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Plant-derived nanoparticles have demonstrated significant anticancer effects. Researchers recently developed rice bran-derived nanoparticles (rbNPs) that efficiently suppressed cell proliferation and ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — Blessed thistle (Cnicus benedictus) is a plant in the family Asteraceae. For centuries, it has been used as a medicinal herb as an extract or tea, e.g. to aid the digestive system. Researchers have ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — A study has found direct evidence of a species -- the American woodcock, a migratory shorebird from eastern and central North America -- that overlaps periods of migration and reproduction, a rare ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — What can be done when one threatened animal kills another? Scientists studying critically endangered lemurs in Madagascar confronted this difficult reality when they witnessed attacks on lemurs by ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — The Atlantic surfclam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a big way, reversing a die-off that ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — Scientists have located and identified alterations in the monkeypox virus genome that potentially correlate with changes in the virus's transmissibility observed in the 2022 ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- World's Chocolate Supply Threatened by Devastating Virus
- Livestock Abortion Surveillance Could Protect Livelihoods and Detect Emerging Global Pathogens
- Odor-Causing Bacteria in Armpits Targeted Using Bacteriophage-Derived Lysin
- Dengue Fever Infections Have Negative Impacts on Infant Health for Three Years
- Fossil Frogs Share Their Skincare Secrets
- Tropical Fish Are Invading Australian Ocean Water
- No Bull: How Creating Less-Gassy Cows Could Help Fight Climate Change
Monday, April 22, 2024
- The Spiciness of Mustard May Depend on Soil Microbes
- AI Tool Creates 'synthetic' Images of Cells for Enhanced Microscopy Analysis
- Liquid Droplets Shape How Cells Respond to Change
- 3 in 5 Parents Play Short Order Cook for Young Children Who Don't Like Family Meal
- Switching Off the Light to See Better
- The Enemy Within: How Pathogens Spread Unrecognized in the Body
- Breakthrough Rice Bran Nanoparticles Show Promise as Affordable and Targeted Anticancer Agent
Friday, April 19, 2024
- New Compound from Blessed Thistle Promotes Functional Nerve Regeneration
- 'Itinerant Breeding' In East Coast Shorebird Species
- Lemur's Lament: When One Vulnerable Species Stalks Another
- Surf Clams Off the Coast of Virginia Reappear -- And Rebound
- New Research Defines Specific Genomic Changes Associated With the Transmissibility of the Monkeypox Virus
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
- Dietary Treatment More Effective Than Medicines in IBS
- Key Protein Regulates Immune Response to Viruses in Mammal Cells
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Why Can Zebrafish Regenerate Damaged Heart Tissue, While Other Fish Species Cannot?
- Octopus Inspires New Suction Mechanism for Robots
- When Thoughts Flow in One Direction
- Metabolic Health Before Vaccination Determines Effectiveness of Anti-Flu Response
- Fourteen Years After the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Endemic Fishes Face an Uncertain Future
- Marine Microbial Populations: Potential Sensors of the Global Change in the Ocean
- RNA's Hidden Potential: New Study Unveils Its Role in Early Life and Future Bioengineering
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Guidance on Energy and Macronutrients Across the Lifespan
- Calorie Restriction Study Reveals Complexities in How Diet Impacts Aging
- Honey Bees Experience Multiple Health Stressors out-in-the-Field
- Probiotic Feed Additive Boosts Growth, Health in Poultry in Place of Antibiotics
- East Coast Mussel Shells Are Becoming More Porous in Warming Waters
- New Class of Antimicrobials Discovered in Soil Bacteria
- Mountain Chickadees Have Remarkable Memories. A New Study Explains Why
- Solving a Mini Mystery of Cell Division
- Marine Plankton Behavior Could Predict Future Marine Extinctions
- Plant Sensors Could Act as an Early Warning System for Farmers
- Dog Attacks on Mountain Tapirs Highlight a Growing Threat to Endangered Wildlife
- A Better View With New Mid-Infrared Nanoscopy
- How Soil Microbes Survive in Harsh Desert Environments
- E-Tongue Can Detect White Wine Spoilage Before Humans Can
- Unique Field Study Shows How Climate Change Affects Fire-Impacted Forests
- Study Finds Iron-Rich Enamel Protects, but Doesn't Color, Rodents' Orange-Brown Incisors
- Copper Beads in Pig Feed Reshape Swine Gut Microbiome
- Tracking a Protein's Fleeting Shape Changes
- Research Explores How a Father's Diet Could Shape the Health of His Offspring
- Making Crops Colorful for Easier Weeding
- Storks Fly With a Little Help from Their Friends
- Researchers Uncover Human DNA Repair by Nuclear Metamorphosis
- New Butterfly Species Created 200,000 Years Ago by Two Species Interbreeding
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Coral Reef Microbes Point to New Way to Assess Ecosystem Health
- Reproductive Success Improves After a Single Generation in the Wild for Descendants of Some Hatchery-Origin Chinook Salmon
- CO2 Worsens Wildfires by Helping Plants Grow
- Huge Database Gives Insight Into Salmon Patterns at Sea
- Real-Time Detection of Infectious Disease Viruses by Searching for Molecular Fingerprinting
- Older Males out-Compete Young Males Outside Breeding Pairs, Bird Study Shows
- New Tagging Method Provides Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors on Diverse, Soft, and Fragile Species
- Plastic Pollution Can Kill Variety of Ocean Embryos
- Florida Wildlife Corridor Eases Worst Impacts of Climate Change
- Seed Ferns: Plants Experimented With Complex Leaf Vein Networks 201 Million Years Ago
- Health Behaviors Accumulate and Remain Relatively Stable Throughout Middle Adulthood
- Biodiversity Is Key to the Mental Health Benefits of Nature
- Twisted Pollen Tubes Induce Infertility
- 'One Ring to Rule Them All': How Actin Filaments Are Assembled by Formins
- Newly Sequenced Genome Reveals Coffee's Prehistoric Origin Story -- And Its Future Under Climate Change
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Take It from the Rats: A Junk Food Diet Can Cause Long-Term Damage to Adolescent Brains
- How Tardigrades Can Survive Intense Radiation
- How Blue-Green Algae Manipulate Microorganisms
- Unlocking the 'chain of Worms'
- Millions of Gamers Advance Biomedical Research
- Tropical Forests Can't Recover Naturally Without Fruit-Eating Birds
- Green-to-Red Transformation of Euglena Gracilis Using Bonito Stock and Intense Red Light
- Researchers Resolve Old Mystery of How Phages Disarm Pathogenic Bacteria
- Even the Simplest Marine Organisms Tend to Be Individualistic
- Leptanilla Voldemort, a Ghostly Slender New Ant Species from the Dark Depths of the Underground
- Digging Up New Species of Australia and New Guinea's Giant Fossil Kangaroos
- Carbon Beads Help Restore Healthy Gut Microbiome and Reduce Liver Disease Progression
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Starving Cells Hijack Protein Transport Stations
- Team Demonstrates Miniature Brain Stimulator in Humans
- Cell's 'garbage Disposal' May Have Another Role: Helping Neurons Near Skin Sense the Environment
- Where Have All the Right Whales Gone?
- Bonobos Are More Aggressive Than Previously Thought, Study Shows
- How Seaweed Became Multicellular
- Microbial Food as a Strategy Food Production of the Future
- Decoding the Language of Cells: Unveiling the Proteins Behind Cellular Organelle Communication
- Iconic Savanna Mammals Face Genetic Problems Due to Fences and Roads
- Innovative Antiviral Defense With New CRISPR Tool
- PFAS Exposure from High Seafood Diets May Be Underestimated
- Oceanographers Uncover the Vital Role of Mixing Down of Oxygen in Sustaining Deep Sea Health
- Choosing Sugary Drinks Over Fruit Juice for Toddlers Linked to Risk of Adult Obesity
- Africa's Iconic Flamingos Threatened by Rising Lake Levels
- Scientists Uncover a Missing Link Between Poor Diet and Higher Cancer Risk
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- New Computer Vision Tool Wins Prize for Social Impact
- Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Persistent HPV Infections
- First Step to Untangle DNA: Supercoiled DNA Captures Gyrase Like a Lasso Ropes Cattle
- New Approach for Combating 'resting' Bacteria
- Tropical Coral-Infecting Parasites Discovered in Cold Marine Ecosystems