Bats Offer Clues to Treating COVID-19 – Secrets to Longevity and Disease Tolerance
To combat COVID-19, we need to regulate our immune systems to resemble those of bats. Bats are often considered patient zero for many deadly viruses…
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Deep-Sea Microbes: New Research Looks at Life Inside and Outside of Seafloor Hydrocarbon Seeps
Listen to Sparrow Song That Went “Viral” Across Canada – Traveled Over 1,800 Miles
How Venus Flytraps Snap: Sophisticated Trapping Mechanism Revealed in New Research
Viral Dark Matter Exposed in Pioneering Research
Supergenes – Massive Blocks of Genes – May Help Fill Lingering Gaps in Darwin’s Theories of Evolution
Discovery of Giant 15′ Extinct Dolphin Shows Surprising Parallel Evolution With Whales
How Long to Play Dead in Order to Stay Alive? The Answer Is “Highly Strategic”
Group Genomics Drive Aggression in Africanized Honey Bees
Soft Coral Garden Discovered in Greenland’s Deep Sea Using an Innovative Video Camera
A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists from UCL, ZSL and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, using an…
Using DNA in the Water to Tell How Many Fish There Are in Rivers, Lakes, and Seas
River water, lake water, and seawater contain DNA belonging to organisms such as animals and plants. Ecologists have begun to actively analyze such DNA molecules,…
Viruses Can Steal Our Genetic Code to Create New Hybrid Human-Virus Genes
Scientists have shown that a large group of viruses, including the influenza viruses and other serious pathogens, steal genetic signals from their hosts to expand…
Fang’tastic: They May Not Be Snakes, but These Amphibians Have a Venomous Bite
Utah State University and Butantan Institute scientists publish evolutionary findings in iScience. Utah State University biologist Edmund ‘Butch’ Brodie, Jr. and colleagues from São Paulo’s…
Wolf Spider Baby Boom in a Warmer Arctic
Climate change leads to longer growing seasons in the Arctic. A new study shows that predators like wolf spiders respond to the changing conditions and…
Snake-Like Venom Glands Discovered Along the Teeth of Amphibians
Caecilians are limbless amphibians that, to the untrained eye, can be easily mistaken for snakes. Though caecilians are only distantly related to their reptilian cousins,…
“DNA Origami” Used by MIT Engineers to Identify Vaccine Design Rules
In lab tests, virus-like DNA structures coated with viral proteins provoke a strong immune response in human B cells. By folding DNA into a virus-like…
Mystery Solved: Why Food Poisoning Bacteria Are So Good at Swimming Through Your Gut
Researchers have solved the mystery of why a species of bacteria that causes food poisoning can swim faster in stickier liquids, such as within guts….
New Zealand’s Ancient Monster Penguins Had Doppelgangers in Japan, the USA and Canada
New Zealand’s monster penguins that lived 62 million years ago had doppelgangers in Japan, the USA and Canada, a study published today in the Journal…