Time-lapse over 60 hours showing the growing biofilm and the pattern development. Credit: University of Cambridge A team of Cambridge scientists working on the intersection…
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The Neanderthal skull, flattened by thousands of years of sediment and rock fall, in situ in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan. Credit: Graeme Barker The first…
This is the latest study from a Keck School of Medicine of Founded in 1880, the University of Southern California is one of the world’s…
One wasp species has evolved the ability to recognize individual faces among their peers, signaling an evolution in how they have learned to work together.…
The protocol begins with Vortex Fluidic Device (VFD) treatment of a mixture of proteinase K and the frozen, then broken-up tissue. The reaction mixture is…
A Varroa mite, a common pest that can weaken bees and make them more susceptible to pathogens, feeds on a honey bee. Credit: Alex Wild/University…
Depicted are hippocampal neurons from a normal mouse (above) and a mouse bred to lack the eIF4G microexon (below). In the latter, there are fewer…
Since humans possess similar genes to the axolotl, the researchers say, scientists may one day discover how to activate them to help speed wound repair…
A University College London-led research team has, for the first time, identified specific regions of chromosome 21, which cause memory and decision-making problems in mice…
Humans Not Always to Blame for Genetic Diversity Loss in Wildlife, New Conservation Research Reveals
Humans Not Always to Blame for Genetic Diversity Loss in Wildlife, New Conservation Research Reveals
Lion. Credit: simondures.com/ZSL Conservationists should be wary of assuming that genetic diversity loss in wildlife is always caused by humans, as new research published today…
The left image shows a knee joint in a healthy rat. (White indicates cartilage.) The second image from the left shows a joint with grade…
Szostak believes the earliest cells developed on land in ponds or pools, potentially in volcanically active regions. Ultraviolet light, lightning strikes, and volcanic eruptions all…
Patients who became infected with the virus were exposed to wildlife animals at a wholesale market, where seafood, poultry, snakes, bats, and farm animals were…
Used for fast food frying, added to packaged foods, and fed to livestock, soybean oil is by far the most widely produced and consumed edible…
11-year-old Bertrand Might (center) surrounded by his family, including his father, Matt Might (second from right), and his mother, Cristina Might (second from left). Credit:…
How did the monstrous giant squid – reaching school-bus size, with eyes as big as dinner plates and tentacles that can snatch prey 10 yards…
New viruses that cause diseases often come from animals. Well-known examples of this are the Zika virus transmitted by mosquitoes, bird flu viruses, as well…
The researchers specifically removed over 1,300 individual genes in the malaria parasite Plasmodium (in red, host cells in green) and were thus able to identify…
“Knock-down” of insulin-like peptide 2 (ILP2) causes a significant reduction in the size of the mandibles of a male Gnatocerus cornutus beetle. Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan…
All cartilaginous fishes, similar to the marine mammals, have lost the SWS1 and SWS2 opsin genes. Sharks and rays do contain both rod and cone…