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Showing posts with label Biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biology. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

How Botox enters our cells

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Volodymyr M. Korkhov (left) and Richard Kammerer of the Center for Life Sciences at PSI have made important advances towards understanding h...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Purdue biochemists discover self-repair function in key photosynthetic protein complex

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Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Steve McKenzie look at a plant thylakoid in a lab at the biochemistry building at Purdue University. Photo Credit: ...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Research in Fruit Flies Pinpoints Brain Pathways Involved in Alcohol-Induced Insomnia

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Adrian Rothenfluh, PhD (left), and Maggie Chvilicek (right), authors on the recent study. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Utah Healt...
Friday, February 7, 2025

Native bee populations can bounce back after honey bees move out

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A native bee sits on a purple flower on the left, while a honey bee sits on a yellow flower on the right.  Photo Credit: © Margarita López-U...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Quantum mechanics helps with photosynthesis

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First author Erika Keil and Prof. Jürgen Hauer in the lab. Photo Credit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Photosynthesis - mainly carried out by pla...

Videos with Cold Symptoms Activate Brain Regions and Trigger Immune Response

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 Study on Brain Activity and Antibody Concentration Photo Credit:  Andrea Piacquadio People who watch videos of sneezing or sick people show...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Regulatory T Cells Found to Safeguard Brain Health, Memory Formation

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Differences in neuronal activation in mice with intact Tregs (left) and depleted Tregs (right). The finding demonstrates that Tregs play a r...
Monday, January 27, 2025

A genome-wide atlas of cell morphology reveals gene functions

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Human cells imaged using Cell Painting. Cell nuclei are shown in blue, actin filaments in yellow, the endoplasmic reticulum in magenta, golg...
Friday, January 24, 2025

OHSU researchers use AI machine learning to map hidden molecular interactions in bacteria

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Andrew Emili, Ph.D., professor of systems biology and oncological sciences, works in his lab at OHSU. Emili is part of a multi-disciplinary ...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

T cells rise up to fight infections in the gut

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An image produced through Xenium analysis of mouse small intestines. Protruding “villi” stick up from the lining of the small intestine. Val...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Researchers create lab model that could lead to new, non-hormonal birth control methods

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Oregon Health & Science University researchers have developed a new lab model to study how changes in cervical mucus during the menstrua...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Polygamy is (not) for the birds

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Rafael S. Marcondes, a faculty fellow in ecology and evolutionary biology at Rice Photo Credit: Alex Becker/Rice University Researchers at R...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

New study identifies how blood vessel dysfunction can worsen chronic disease

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OHSU researchers have uncovered how specialized cells surrounding small blood vessels, known as perivascular cells, contribute to blood vess...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

New sunflower family tree reveals multiple origins of flower symmetry

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A new sunflower family tree reveals that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently. Chrysanthemum lavandulifolium, on the upper l...

Scientists identify rare gene variants which confer up to 6-fold increase in risk of obesity

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Photo Credit:  Mart Production The discovery of rare variants in the genes BSN and APBA1 are some of the first obesity-related genes identif...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Discovery of how COVID-19 virus replicates opens door to new antiviral therapies

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A new study, looking at the replication stage of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, discovered important mechanisms in its replicati...

Pressure determines which embryonic cells become ‘organizers’

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 Tooth epithelium (cell surface; yellow) and mesenchyme (cell surface; magenta). Proliferating cells (cyan) expand the tissue, generating a ...

Discovery could end global amphibian pandemic

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Panamanian golden frog Photo Credit: Brian Gratwicke/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service A fungus devastating frogs and toads on nearly every c...

In the evolution of walking, the hip bone connected to the rib bones

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New reconstruction of the skeleton of Tiktaalik roseae, a 375-million-year-old fossil fish. In a new study, researchers used micro-CT imagin...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk

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Rod-shaped Oscillibacter sp. bacteria take up fluorescently labeled cholesterol (here shown in green). Image Credit: Ahmed Mohamed  Changes ...