progscrape: biology

A protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy

35 days ago news.mit.edu biology cancer

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don’t stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins…

35 days ago news.cuanschutz.edu biology

MIT researchers developed advanced robotic insects that could transform artificial pollination

44 days ago myelectricsparks.com biology mit

Scientists Just Created a Full Synthetic Yeast Genome for the First Time

2 months ago sciencealert.com biology

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders.

44 days ago nytimes.com biology ireland

Masculine lesbians tend to have higher testosterone levels, study finds

55 days ago link.springer.com biology

Researchers observe blowfly larvae mimicking termite faces with their butts

40 days ago sciencenews.org biology

Neurons that tell you to stop eating could unlock obesity treatments

45 days ago newatlas.com biology

NIH slashes overhead payments for research

53 days ago science.org biology

Using cryo-electron microscopy, the structures of mammalian fatty acid synthase reveal how the acyl carrier protein dynamically shuttles intermediates between selected active sites.

39 days ago nature.com biology

Do aliens exist? We studied what scientists think

54 days ago theconversation.com biology

Newly discovered fungus turns cave-dwelling spiders into ‘zombies’

47 days ago edition.cnn.com biology

Cats often do not come across as having the variety of facial expressions typical of dogs or primates. But this is misleading

56 days ago psychologytoday.com biology

A reassessment of the “hard-steps” model for the evolution of intelligent life

46 days ago science.org biology

A new non-opioid painkiller, suzetrigine, has just been approved by the US drug regulator, the FDA

55 days ago sciencealert.com biology

India doubled its tiger population in a little over a decade by protecting the big cats from poaching and habitat loss, ensuring they have enough prey, reducing human-wildlife conflict, and increasing communities' living standards near tiger areas…

2 months ago npr.org biology

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it'd take for us to survive such a catastrophe.

55 days ago sciencealert.com biology

Cockatoos show appetite for dips when eating bland food, find scientists - Birds observed going to lengths to flavour food, with particular penchant for blueberry-flavoured soy yoghurt dip.

51 days ago theguardian.com biology

Not too hard, not too soft, rotting fruit is just right for fruit fly maggots

2 months ago npr.org biology

Variability in radiotherapy outcomes across cancer types: a comparative study of glioblastoma multiforme and low-grade gliomas

33 days ago doi.org biology cancer

Neurocognitive disparities: investigating ethnicity and mental health in rural aging adults

2 months ago doi.org biology

Researchers examined the spatial organization of chromatin, which includes DNA and related structural proteins, in one of the most interesting model organisms in biology, Dictyostelium

40 days ago academic.oup.com biology genetics

Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk's fellowship

48 days ago nature.com biology elonmusk

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to oxidative stress

50 days ago news.osu.edu biology

AI Reveals Hidden Interior Design Rules of the Cell -- A new tool predicts where proteins fit, opening new frontiers in drug discovery

44 days ago spectrum.ieee.org ai biology

Study unveils how neural stem cells are activated in the adult human brain

54 days ago eurekalert.org biology brain

Time-resolved X-ray solution scattering unveils the events leading to hemoglobin heme capture by staphylococcal IsdB