Plants & Animals News
November 20, 2024
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Nov. 18, 2024 — A newly discovered pterosaur fossil is shedding light on the evolutionary journey of these ancient flying reptiles. This complete specimen, named Skiphosoura bavarica, provides crucial insights into how pterosaurs transitioned from early, smaller ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — An international team of researchers has achieved an unprecedented milestone: the creation of mouse stem cells capable of generating a fully developed mouse using genetic tools from a unicellular organism, with which we share a common ancestor that ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the ...
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Nov. 20, 2024 — Forests with few tree species pose considerably higher risk of being damaged and especially vulnerable is the introduced lodgepole ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — The skin microbiome plays a key role in skin health and disease. While imbalances in skin microbiome composition are linked to disease, studying it ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Fiber is something that most of us get far too little of. To change that, we need to actually enjoy eating it. Food researchers have now invented a ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs -- so they don't work well, or even at all -- means new ones are urgently needed. ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Residential garden produce grown near the Fayetteville Works fluorochemical plant can expose those who consume it to per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Dairy cows typically rest for 10 or more hours a day, so a dry, clean, and comfortable place -- such as a freestall -- to lie down and rest is ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Typically, closely related animal species have difficulty coexisting because they are competing for similar resources. Despite eating the same figs, ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Scientists have identified human antibodies capable of targeting the proteins responsible for severe malaria, potentially paving the way for new vaccines or treatments. Using organ-on-a-chip ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Researchers shrink gastrointestinal tumors in mice using a yeast probiotic to deliver immunotherapy to the gut, offering a potentially novel strategy to target hard-to-reach gut ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of paleontologists prefer drumsticks. That part of the leg, they say, is where fibular reduction ...
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Nov. 19, 2024 — Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA -- that molecular blueprint for life -- over 70 years ago. Today, scientists are still uncovering new ways to read ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — The Wistar Institute and the University of Buea in Cameroon has uncovered the mechanisms for a medicinal plant with anti-HIV potential in Croton oligandrus Pierre & Hutch, a species of African ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers are helping uncover new information about the Y chromosome in horses, which will help owners identify optimal lineages for breeding and help conservationists preserve breed ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — A new study measuring access to nature for eight major global cities found most still have inadequate canopy cover, despite access to an abundance of ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Cell-to-cell communication through nanosized particles, working as messengers and carriers, can now be analyzed in a whole new way, thanks to a new method involving CRISPR gene-editing technology. ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — In order to use remote locations to record and assess the behavior of wildlife and environmental conditions, the GAIA Initiative developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that reliably and ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven. This rapid ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new bio-inspired approach to building complex 3D microfluidic networks by utilizing plant roots and fungal hyphae as molds. The team grew plants and fungi in ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — A few years back, a group of weed scientists showed that soil-applied herbicides are less effective against agricultural weeds in the context of our changing climate. Now, the same research group has ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — A research article shows that Eradivir's patent-pending antiviral therapeutic called EV25 reduces lung viral loads of advanced-stage influenza in preclinical studies quicker and more effectively ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — In most people, the lung-infecting pathogens known as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and human metapneumovirus (hMPV) trigger mild cold-like symptoms. But in infants and seniors, these viruses can ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — New research has found that people with a genetic defect in their ability to digest sucrose eat less cake, sweets and chocolate, which could hold the key to helping the wider population to eat less ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Migratory birds are known for their ability to traverse thousands of kilometres to reach their breeding or wintering grounds. Research found that these birds, in this case, Eurasian reed warblers ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Immune cells are capable of detecting infections just like a sniffer dog, using special sensors known as Toll-like receptors, or TLRs for short. But what signals activate TLRs, and what is the ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Herbal medicine is difficult to produce on an industrial scale. A team of bioengineers have now manipulated the cellular machinery in a species of yeast so that one such molecule can now be produced ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Up to two thirds of the world's temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Shifting our diets to be more sustainable can be a powerful way for each of us to address both climate change and global food insecurity, however making such adjustments at the large scales necessary ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Phosphorus, a nutrient in soil essential for sustaining most forms of life, is increasingly disappearing from land as it is washed into waterways throughout the United States, according to a new ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — A new nasal whooping cough vaccine showed an ability to prevent both infection and transmission of the disease in mice. Current vaccines offer treatment but fail to halt transmission of the bacteria ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- Advancements in Genomic Research Reveal Alternative Transcription Initiation Sites in Thousands of Soybean Genes
- HIV Latency Reversing Properties in African Plant
- Secrets of Horse Genetics for Conservation, Breeding
- Populations Overheat as Major Cities Fail Canopy Goals
- Labeling Cell Particles With Barcodes
- Vultures and Artificial Intelligence(s) as Death Detectors: High-Tech Approach for Wildlife Research and Conservation
- How Children Learned for 99% of Human History
- Building Roots in Glass, a Bio-Inspired Approach to Creating 3D Microvascular Networks Using Plants and Fungi
- Will Agricultural Weeds Finally Claim the Upper Hand in a Changing Climate?
- How Cells Habituate
- Eradivir's EV25 Therapeutic Reduces Advanced-Stage Influenza Viral Loads Faster, More Thoroughly in Preclinical Studies Than Current Therapies
- Researchers Use Biophysics to Design New Vaccines Against RSV and Related Respiratory Viruses
- Could a Genetic Flaw Be the Key to Stopping People Craving Sugary Treats?
- Study Challenges Long-Held Theories on How Migratory Birds Navigate
- How Immune Cells 'sniff Out' Pathogens
- Bioengineered Yeast Mass Produces Herbal Medicine
- Climate Change Threatens Rare Temperate Rainforests
Monday, November 18, 2024
- Revealing the Hidden Costs of What We Eat
- American Soil Losing More Nutrients for Crops Due to Heavier Rainstorms
- New Nasal Vaccine Shows Promise in Curbing Whooping Cough Spread
- New Model Can Help Understand Coexistence in Nature
- A Single Cell's Siesta
- How Marine Worms Regenerate Lost Body Parts
- Tree Islands Restore Nature in Oil Palm Plantations
- When Hepatitis E Viruses Attack Nerve Cells
- Bee Alert: Pesticides Pose a Real Threat to Over 70% of Wild Bees
- Tiny Worm Makes for Big Evolutionary Discovery
- Dieting: Cause of the Yo-Yo Effect Deciphered
Saturday, November 16, 2024
- NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels
- Achilles Heel of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- 'Walk This Way': How Ants Create Trails to Multiple Food Sources
Friday, November 15, 2024
- New Study Shows How Salmonella Tricks Gut Defenses to Cause Infection
- Generation of Rat Offspring from Ovarian Oocytes by Cross-Species Transplantation
- Biologists Reveal the Genetic 'switch' Behind Parrot Color Diversity
- Mountain Lions Coexist With Outdoor Recreationists by Taking the Night Shift
- Scientists Transform Blood Into Regenerative Materials, Paving the Way for Personalized, Blood-Based, 3D-Printed Implants
- Biodiversity in the City: Designing Urban Spaces for Humans and Animals
- Zinc Deficiency Promotes Acinetobacter Lung Infection, Study Finds
- Rainforest Protection Reduces the Number of Respiratory Diseases
- One or Many? Exploring the Population Groups of the Largest Animal on Earth
- Stress Makes Mice's Memories Less Specific
- Protein in Soy May Reduce the Risk of Heart Failure by Affecting Gut Bacteria
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- Slow Editing of Protein Blueprints Leads to Cell Death
- Study Uncovers First Evidence of Resistance to Standard Malaria Treatment in African Children With Severe Malaria
- Study Finds Humidity Diminishes Daytime Cooling Gains in Urban Green Spaces
- Scientific Thought on Emotions in Animals
- Diverse and Diverging Demands on Forests in Germany
- Backyard Birds Learn from Their New Neighbors When Moving House
- New Discovery Enables Gene Therapy for Muscular Dystrophies, Other Disorders
- Optical Biosensor Rapidly Detects Mpox Virus
- When Sun Protection Begets Malnutrition: Vitamin D Deficiency in Japanese Women
- New Study Reveals Half a Century of Change on Britain's Iconic Limestone Pavements
- Revolutionizing Biology Education: Scientists Film 'giant' Mimivirus in Action
- Behavioral Analysis in Mice: More Precise Results Despite Fewer Animals
- Frog Populations Once Decimated by Disease Mount a Major Comeback
- AI Method Can Spot Potential Disease Faster, Better Than Humans, Study Finds
- 'Cool' White Car Headlights More Likely to Dazzle Moths
- Living Microbes Discovered in Earth's Driest Desert
- A New Technology to Isolate Immunostimulatory Members of the Human Gut Microbiota: Next-Generation IgA-Seq
- How Conflicting Memories of Sex and Starvation Compete to Drive Behavior, Study in Worms Shows
- NeuroMechFly V2: Simulating How Fruit Flies See, Smell, and Navigate
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- 'Achilles Heel' Of Drug-Resistant Pathogens
- Researchers Reveal Why a Key Tuberculosis Drug Works Against Resistant Strains
- Bluetooth Technology Unlocks Urban Animal Secrets
- Linking Data on Genetics, Traits and Environment Gives Crop Breeders a Wider Lens
- Climate Change Threatens Key Ocean Plankton Groups
- New Species Discovered With Refined DNA Technology
- How Studying Fruit Flies Can Help Us Understand Congenital Defects
- Children's Gut Bacteria May Hold the Key to Diarrhea Treatment
- On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist
- Anti-Fatberg Invention Could Help Unclog City Sewers
- The Blue-Green Sustainable Proteins of Seaweed May Soon Be on Your Plate
- Potential Single-Dose Smallpox and Mpox Vaccine Moves Forward
- Human Stem Cell-Derived Heart Cells Are Safe in Monkeys, Could Treat Congenital Heart Disease
- Cell Aging in One Organ Can Snowball Into Multi-Organ Failure
- Key Influenza-Severity Risk Factor Found Hiding in Plain Sight on Our Antibodies
- Robot Identifies Plants by 'touching' Their Leaves
- We May Be Overestimating the Association Between Gut Bacteria and Disease, Machine Learning Study Finds
- Pioneering Research Shows Sea Life Will Struggle to Survive Future Global Warming
- More Evidence That Europe's Ancient Landscapes Were Open Woodlands: Oak, Hazel and Yew Were Abundant
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- From Pets to Pests: Researchers Explore New Tool to Fight Disease-Carrying Insects
- Bioluminescent Proteins Made from Scratch Enable Non-Invasive, Multi-Functional Biological Imaging
- Young Coral Use Metabolic Tricks to Resist Bleaching
- Synthetic Cells Emulate Natural Cellular Communication
- Facing the Wind: How Trees Behave Across Various Forest Settings and Weather Events
- More Than One Third of Vietnam's Mammal Species Are at Risk of Extinction, Study Finds
- In Unity Towards Complex Structures
- One Genomic Test Can Diagnose Nearly Any Infection
- Sleep Is No Light Matter for Bees
- 'Drowning' Mangrove Forests in Maldives Signal Global Coastal Threat
- Using CRISPR to Decipher Whether Gene Variants Lead to Cancer
- In Greening Arctic, Caribou and Muskoxen Play Key Role
- Bulges Calculated in the Supercomputer: How Cells Digest Their Internal Canal System
- DNA Packaging Directly Affects How Fast DNA Is Copied in Cells
- Remarkable New Swimming Sea Slug in the Deep Sea