Life Sciences News
April 23, 2024
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Apr. 20, 2024 — Anticipating changes to ecosystems is often at best an educated guess, but what if there was a way to better tune into possible changes occurring? Researchers have discovered that the silent growth of non-native invasive plants can affect the ...
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 now found a completely novel use for Cnicin. Animal ...
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 another vulnerable species, a carnivore called a ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — A heart attack will leave a permanent scar on a human heart, yet other animals, including zebrafish, can clear cardiac scar tissue and regrow damaged muscle as adults. Biologists sheds new light on ...
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Apr. 19, 2024 — Researchers have revealed the regulatory mechanism of a specific protein, TRBP, that plays a key role in balancing the immune response triggered by viral infections in mammal cells. These findings ...
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. 17, 2024 — Researchers have shown that an Amazonian butterfly is a hybrid species, formed by two other species breeding together almost 200,000 years ago. ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that tardigrades -- microscopic animals famed for surviving harsh extremes -- have an unusual response to ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — Animal and plant populations have been extensively studied, which has helped to understand ecosystem processes and evolutionary adaptations. However, ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — A research team discovers previously unknown gene that indirectly promotes photosynthesis Protein regulator NirP1 influences the coordination of the nitrogen and carbohydrate metabolism 'Such protein ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — In the long history of recommendations for nutritional intake, current research is trending toward the concept of 'food as medicine' -- a philosophy in which food and nutrition are positioned within ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Mountain chickadees have among the best spatial memory in the animal kingdom. New research identifies the genes at play and offers insight into how a shifting climate may impact the evolution of this ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers who captured footage of dog attacks on endangered mountain tapirs in Colombia are calling for action to protect threatened ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb ...
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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. 17, 2024 — Researchers have discovered toxic protein particles, shaped like umbrellas, that soil bacteria known as Streptomyces secrete to squelch competitors in their crowded microbial communities, especially ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Copper is a natural antimicrobial material that, when added to pig feed, may promote the growth and health of the animals. Since pigs can tolerate high levels of the metal, researchers recently ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed a powerful, new technique to generate 'movies' of changing protein structures and speeds of up to 50 frames per ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — To make weeding easier, scientists suggest bioengineering crops to be colorful or to have differently shaped leaves so that they can be more easily distinguished from their wild and weedy ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a DNA repair mechanism that advances understanding of how human cells stay healthy, and which could lead to new treatments for cancer and premature ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Researchers who created 'family trees' for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin Chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — A massive new analysis of high seas salmon surveys is enhancing the understanding of salmon ecology, adding details about where various species congregate in the North Pacific Ocean and their ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Tagging marine animals with sensors to track their movements and ocean conditions can provide important environmental and behavioral information. Existing techniques to attach sensors currently ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — According to a research team led by palaeontologists, the net-like leaf veining typical for today's flowering plants developed much earlier than previously thought, but died out again several ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Plants with multiple sets of chromosomes, known as polyploids, are salt-tolerant or drought-resistant and often achieve higher yields. However, newly formed polyploid plants are often sterile or have ...
Apr. 16, 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 ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — A new study charts the family history of Arabica, the world's most popular coffee species, through Earth's heating and cooling periods over the last ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — An international team of scientists has published a single-cell atlas for Pristina leidyi (Pristina), the water nymph worm, a segmented annelid with extraordinary regenerative abilities that has ...
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 ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Sport junkie or couch potato? Always on time or often late? The animal kingdom, too, is home to a range of personalities, each with its own lifestyle. Biologists report on a surprising discovery: ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — In the sun-scorched Pilbara region of north-western Australia, scientists have unearthed a mysterious creature from the shadows -- a new ant species called Leptanilla ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Palaeontologists have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo from Australia and New Guinea, finding them more diverse in shape, range and hopping method than previously thought. ...
Friday, April 19, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- New Class of Antimicrobials Discovered in Soil Bacteria
- Copper Beads in Pig Feed Reshape Swine Gut Microbiome
- Tracking a Protein's Fleeting Shape Changes
- Making Crops Colorful for Easier Weeding
- Researchers Uncover Human DNA Repair by Nuclear Metamorphosis
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Reproductive Success Improves After a Single Generation in the Wild for Descendants of Some Hatchery-Origin Chinook Salmon
- Huge Database Gives Insight Into Salmon Patterns at Sea
- New Tagging Method Provides Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors on Diverse, Soft, and Fragile Species
- Plastic Pollution Can Kill Variety of Ocean Embryos
- Seed Ferns: Plants Experimented With Complex Leaf Vein Networks 201 Million Years Ago
- Twisted Pollen Tubes Induce Infertility
- Can Animals Count?
- Newly Sequenced Genome Reveals Coffee's Prehistoric Origin Story -- And Its Future Under Climate Change
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Unlocking the 'chain of Worms'
- Evolution's Recipe Book: How 'copy Paste' Errors Cooked Up the Animal Kingdom
- Tropical Forests Can't Recover Naturally Without Fruit-Eating Birds
- 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
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Cell's 'garbage Disposal' May Have Another Role: Helping Neurons Near Skin Sense the Environment
- How Seaweed Became Multicellular
- Iconic Savanna Mammals Face Genetic Problems Due to Fences and Roads
- Innovative Antiviral Defense With New CRISPR Tool
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Persistent HPV Infections
- First Step to Untangle DNA: Supercoiled DNA Captures Gyrase Like a Lasso Ropes Cattle
- Biofortified Rice to Combat Deficiencies
- Oxidant Pollutant Ozone Removes Mating Barriers Between Fly Species
- Mapped: 33 New Big Game Migrations Across American West
- Genetic Underpinnings of Environmental Stress Identified in Model Plant
- Geobiology: New Placozoan Habitat Discovered
- Method to Extract Useful Proteins from Beer-Brewing Leftovers
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Scientists Create Octopus Survival Guide to Minimize Impacts of Fishing
- Ants in Colorado Are on the Move Due to Climate Change
- Researchers Discover How We Perceive Bitter Taste
- New Report 'braids' Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Forest Adaptation Strategies Against Climate Change
- Cockayne Syndrome: New Insights Into Cellular DNA Repair Mechanism
- Cold-Affinity Algae Species Are Gradually Being Replaced by Warm-Affinity Ones Off the Coast of Biscay
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Impact of Climate Change on Marine Life Much Bigger Than Previously Known
- Machine Learning Method Reveals Chromosome Locations in Individual Cell Nucleus
- Do Some Mysterious Bones Belong to Gigantic Ichthyosaurs?
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Different Means to the Same End: How a Worm Protects Its Chromosomes
- Toothed Whale Echolocation Organs Evolved from Jaw Muscles
- How Plants Adjust Their Photosynthesis to Changing Light
- Mediterranean Marine Worm Has Developed Enormous Eyes
- Integrated Dataset Enables Genes-to-Ecosystems Research
Friday, April 5, 2024
- In the Evolution of Walking, the Hip Bone Connected to the Rib Bones
- Can Language Models Read the Genome? This One Decoded mRNA to Make Better Vaccines
- Four in Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures
- Heat Stress from Ocean Warming Harms Octopus Vision
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- The Life Aquatic: A Game Changer for Frog Vision, but Little Difference Between Night and Day
- Rusty-Patched Bumblebee's Struggle for Survival Found in Its Genes
- Shy Sea Anemones Are More Likely to Survive Heatwaves
- Microbial Signature of Colorectal Cancer-Associated Mutations Identified in New Study
- Fish Species That Move Rapidly Toward the Poles Due to Global Warming Decline in Abundance, Study Finds
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- New Tools Reveal How Genes Work and Cells Organize
- New Sunflower Family Tree Reveals Multiple Origins of Flower Symmetry
- Developing a Vaccine for the 'zombie Drug' Xylazine
- Early Dinosaurs Grew Up Fast, but They Weren't the Only Ones
- Demand for Critical Minerals Puts African Great Apes at Risk
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- These Plants Evolved in Florida Millions of Years Ago: They May Be Gone in Decades
- How and Why Animals Can Live Alongside Humans
- When Did the Chicken Cross the Road? New Evidence from Central Asia
- Older Trees Help to Protect an Endangered Species
- Scientists Link Certain Gut Bacteria to Lower Heart Disease Risk
Monday, April 1, 2024
- Computational Tools Fuel Reconstruction of New and Improved Bird Family Tree
- Melting Glaciers in a Warmer Climate Provide New Ground for Invasive Species
- Canada Lynx Historic Range in US Likely Wider Than Previously Thought
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- When Inequality Is More Than 'skin-Deep': Social Status Leaves Traces in the Epigenome of Spotted Hyenas in Tanzania
- How the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Enters Our Cells
- Genomic Research May Help Explain Cancer Resistance in Tasmanian Devils
- Researchers Discover Key Gene for Toxic Alkaloid in Barley
- Synaptic Protein Change During Development Offers Clues on Evolution and Disease
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Understanding Cattle Grazing Personalities May Foster Sustainable Rangelands
- North American Cities May See a Major Species Turnover by the End of the Century
- Sweet Success: Sugarcane's Complex Genetic Code Cracked
- Rock-Wallaby Bite Size ‘packs a Punch’
- Scientists Extract Genetic Secrets from 4,000-Year-Old Teeth to Illuminate the Impact of Changing Human Diets Over the Centuries
- Secrets of the Naked Mole-Rat: New Study Reveals How Their Unique Metabolism Protects Them from Heart Attacks
- New Technique for Predicting Protein Dynamics May Prove Big Breakthrough for Drug Discovery
- Looking to the Past to Prevent Future Extinction
- Biologists Uncover New Species of Tiger Beetle: Eunota Houstoniana
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- UK Rabbit Owners Can Recognize Pain in Their Pets, Study Finds
- Researchers Find Energy Development and Tree Encroachment Impact Wyoming Pronghorn
- In Paleontology, Correct Names Are Keys to Accurate Study
- Severe Hurricanes Boost Influx of Juveniles and Gene Flow in a Coral Reef Sponge
- Two Coral Snakes Recorded Battling for Prey in a Scientific First
- Discovery of Amino Acid Unveils How Light Makes Plants Open
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Species Diversity Is Directly Correlated With Productivity in Eastern U.S. Forests
- Citizen Scientists Contribute Vital Information About 35 Seahorse Species
- Humans Pass More Viruses to Other Animals Than We Catch from Them
- Caller ID of the Sea: Tagging Whale Communication and Behavior
- Maize Genes Control Little Helpers in the Soil
- 'Winners and Losers' As Global Warming Forces Plants Uphill
Friday, March 22, 2024
- Bees Need Food Up to a Month Earlier Than Provided by Recommended Pollinator Plants
- Research Uncovers a Rare Resin Fossil Find: A Spider That Aspires to Be an Ant