This is the hollow mouse pulmonary artery model. Credit: Alain Herzog / 2019 EPFL Researchers from EPFL and the University Medical Center Utrecht in the…
Posts published in “Biology”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
A horseshoe bat that will likely be described as a new species in the next steps of this research. Credit: Jens Rydell There are way…
Researchers at UC San Francisco and the University of Queensland have discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the “wasabi receptor,” a chemical-sensing protein found in…
Scientists have discovered something new about the bright green glow in some sharks. Scientists have newly discovered why some sharks’ biofluorescence allows them to glow bright…
Most types of Escherichia coli are harmless, but the ones that aren’t can cause severe life-threatening diarrhea. These problematic bacteria launch infections by inducing intestinal cells to…
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S. Currently, they affect 40 million adults age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the…
Gene therapy is currently being used for developing strategies to treat a variety of genetic diseases. It has come far in recent years and is…
The lab of Cheryl Kerfeld at Michigan State University has created a synthetic nano-sized factory, based on natural ones found in bacteria. This research could someday lead to…
You’ve most likely quickly pulled your hand away when you’ve pricked it on a thorn bush, or if you fingertips get too close to fire.…
The tardigrade, more commonly known as the water bear, has been in the news lately following the recent revelation that thousands of them were onboard…
Penguins as tall as humans used to roam the Earth, specifically in New Zealand, a new discovery has found. The fossil of a human-sized penguin…
A new platform has been released that allows researchers to test the effects of drugs on heart cells without the need for test animals. The…
Last week, a 63-year-old man walked into a New York City hospital with what he expected to be a routine check on hip pain he…
First cells on ancient Earth may have emerged because building blocks of proteins stabilized membranes. Life on Earth arose about 4 billion years ago when…
Neuroscientists in Melbourne, Australia are creating impressive new trippy brain images that visualize the incredibly complex network of fibers that make up the brain. Far…
Alzheimer’s is a debilitating disorder that comes with many problems one of which is that people with the disease tend to nap excessively during the…
Along the genome, proteins form liquid-like droplets that appear to boost the expression of particular genes. In recent years, MIT scientists have developed a new…
Legless? That doesn’t stop these little three millimeter-long larvae from leaping up to 30 times their body length. What’s all the more interesting is that scientists have…
A new study by a U of A undergraduate student provides the first detailed imaging of garter snake skulls at various stages of development. The…
Resistance to antibiotics has been on scientists’ and researchers’ minds, as they look for alternative solutions for treatments and cures of multiple antibiotic-reliant diseases. One…