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Biology
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Biology
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
The brain reacts differently to touch depending on context
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Photo Credit: Thor Balkhed The touch of another person may increase levels of the “feelgood” hormone oxytocin. But the context really matter...
Monday, May 8, 2023
An unprecedented view of gene regulation
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Caption:“Using this method, we generate the highest-resolution maps of the 3D genome that have ever been generated, and what we see are a lo...
T Cells Can Activate Themselves to Fight Tumors
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T cells are a type of white blood cell and play a central role in the immune response. Photo Credit: NIAID. When you need a bit of motivatio...
A new atlas illustrates how the human retina is developing.
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Detail of a cross-section of a retinal organoid. Different tissue structures are made visible with different colors. Photo Cred...
Researchers develop model for how the brain acquires essential omega-3 fatty acids
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Step-by-step process of lipid transport across blood-brain barrier. Illustration Credit: Ethan Tyler from NIH Medical Arts Researchers at th...
Study sheds light on how the immune system protects the body
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Photo Credit: RDNE Stock project Researchers explore how patients with a rare and severe immunodeficiency were still able to defend themsel...
The evolution of honey bee brains
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European honey bee worker. The researchers studied honey bees exhibiting different behaviors: foragers, nurse bees, and queens. Honey bees i...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Fossil find in California shakes up the natural history of cycad plants
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Three-dimensional reconstruction of the whole cone and different views of the same cone scale. Scale bar: cone = 400 microns; cone scales = ...
Monday, May 1, 2023
iDNA from flies to track native species across Western Australian wheatbelt
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Carrion Fly Photo Credit: Ian Lindsay Researchers from Curtin University have collected iDNA from flies to track the movements of Australia...
The Trumpet biocomputing platform heralds a new path for medicine
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A biocomputing chip made of bacteria. Image Credit: College of Biological Sciences / University of Minnesota From early detection and intern...
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Targeting mitochondria and related protein suggest new therapeutic strategy for treating Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS)
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Researchers have discovered a receptor, sigma-1 receptor (green), and a protein, ATAD3A (red), that are associated with Amyotrophic Lateral...
Study unlocks potential breakthrough in Type 1 diabetes treatment
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Omid Veiseh and Boram Kim. Kim is holding a medical-grade catheter similar to ones used in the study experiments. Photo Credit: Gustavo Rask...
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Researchers get the drop on new frog species
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The Litoria naispela juvenile mimics bird droppings. Photo Credit: Steve Richards Five new species of frogs, including one with camouflage t...
How wiggly spaghetti guard the genome
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The image shows an artistic impression of the rocky scaffold structure of the nuclear pore complex filled with intrinsically disordered nucl...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Membrane proteins of cyanobacteria and higher organisms are structurally highly similar
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SynDLP, the dynamin-like protein of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis, forms highly ordered oligomeric structures that bind to membranes. Ill...
Predators decrease prey disease levels but also population size
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Microscope image showing a phantom midge larva (genus Chaoborus), top left, preying on a Daphnia dentifera water flea, bottom right. Chaobor...
This killer protein causes pancreatic cancer
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Mouse pancreas cells with high levels of the protein SRSF1; CSHL Professor Adrian Krainer found that mice with high levels of SRFS1 tend to ...
Near-universal T cell immunity towards a broad range of bacteria
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Neutralizing the bacterially derived cytotoxic bomb: the pneumococci lie in the background, an array of macrophages and dendritic cells are ...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
COVID-19 vaccine appears more effective if received around midday
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A new study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that circadian rhythm — the natural cycle of physical and ...
Horses living in groups are better at following human indications than horses living in individual paddocks
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An illustration and photo of the research situation. Photo Credit: Océane Liehrmann Wild horses live in complex social groups and can move a...
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