progscrape: biology

Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species

47 days ago reuters.com biology

Structural modeling reveals phage proteins that manipulate bacterial immune signaling

55 days ago science.org biology

Raccoons will solve puzzles just for fun

46 days ago scientificamerican.com biology

Moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery | Silent witness: a moss provides important evidence in solving a cemetery crime

51 days ago arstechnica.com biology

Covid-19 pandemic and vaccination has led to generation of widespread immunity against related sarbecoviruses, creating an immunological barrier to novel sarbecovirus emergence in humans

32 days ago nature.com biology covid

Researchers have found the human brain consumes roughly 20% of the body’s total energy, even though it accounts for only about 2% of body weight, This high energy demand is largely due to constant neural activity required for functions like thinking…

42 days ago scientificamerican.com biology brain

New allergy immunotherapy for cross-reactive allergies (food and pollen) based on mRNA and consensus designed allergens

50 days ago nature.com biology mrna

AI cancer tools risk “shortcut learning” rather than detecting true biology

58 days ago nature.com ai biology cancer

During California’s worst dry spell in the past 1,200 years, some populations of wildflowers defied the odds to survive the ordeal

48 days ago cnn.com biology california

The types of fats we consume directly impacts the survival and strength of the body’s immune cells and ability to fight disease: diet with a lower ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids to monounsaturated fatty acids makes T cells much more resilient and resistant to cell death

55 days ago news.uq.edu.au biology disease