Manipulator arm on the HyBIS hybrid remotely operated vehicle collecting crust samples from the Rio Grande Rise. Credit: Bramley Murton Researchers conducted the first large-scale…
Posts published in “Biology”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Amphiprion percula, a species of clownfish photographed in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. Credit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor The distinctive white stripes in clownfish form at different…
Study lays groundwork for developing drugs to treat or prevent addiction in humans and provides contextual framework for future research. New research from the Clemson…
Anolis lizard rebreathes exhaled air underwater using a bubble clinging to their snouts. Credit: Lindsey Swierk A team of evolutionary biologists including faculty at Binghamton…
Stock photo of a beached pilot whale carcass. A new study published by the open access publisher Frontiers shows the usefulness of opportunistically collected specimens,…
Dr. Dylan Gomes led the team that deployed speaker arrays early in the spring to begin playback of whitewater river noise before most birds and…
Using EMBL Hamburg’s world-class beamline P12 at DESY’s PETRA III synchrotron, researchers directed powerful X-ray beams at artificial proteins called coiled-coil origami proteins. Credit: Fabio…
The single-celled organism can detect, in which direction the concentration of nutrients is highest. Credit: TU Wien How do simple creatures manage to move to…
When Charles Darwin published Descent of Man 150 years ago, he launched scientific investigations on human origins and evolution. Last week, three leading scientists in…
A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis machinery – that are…
A schema summarizing the effects caused by the deficiency of GABAergic transmission from vasopressin neurons on circadian rhythms at multiple levels. Without GABA release from…
Flower sex is an important factor when breeding for quality cultivars. Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a genetic exchange so rare that it’s…
Early lineages of mammals, like this large Gobiconodon from Mongolia, outcompeted the ancestors of modern mammals in the time of dinosaurs. Credit: Art by Corbin…
First-of-its-kind mechanical model simulates bending of mammalian whiskers. Researchers have developed a new mechanical model that simulates how whiskers bend within a follicle in response…
Life reconstruction of the new Cretaceous fossil turtle species Pleurochayah appalachius from the Arlington Archosaur Site in the Woodbine Group of Texas. Credit: Brent Adrian/Midwestern…
Bone marrow failure due to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a significant factor behind the disease’s high rate of morbidity and mortality. Previous studies in…
Study on declining biodiversity in Tibet’s mountainous regions in response to climate change. Normally, mountain forests are among the most diverse habitats in alpine regions.…
A Taiwan vole, closely related to the creeping vole described in the study. Credit: Lai Wagtail / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Open up Scott Roy’s…
A variety of molecules protrude from the cell surface, including glycoproteins, glycolipids, and the newly discovered glycoRNAs. This illustration depicts RNA as a double-stranded stem…
Invasions by alien insect and animal species have much in common with outbreaks of infectious diseases and could tell us a great deal about how…