Tracking Dangerous Bat Coronaviruses With Next-Generation DNA Sequencing
A targeted NGS approach may help track the viruses behind dangerous outbreaks. On January 21, 2020, the first case of the Wuhan coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV,…
A targeted NGS approach may help track the viruses behind dangerous outbreaks. On January 21, 2020, the first case of the Wuhan coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV,…
Mouse study identifies a brain mechanism underlying social deficits and mental disability in a finding that could lead to new treatments. Autism can bestow brilliance…
Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed a new technique that allows a type of filter paper (comparable to coffee filter paper) to store cells…
Plants Benefit From More Bees, Especially Bumble Bees Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in rural areas. This has now been demonstrated experimentally…
Organoids (In Vitro Brains) to Study Pediatric Brain Tumors A large-scale production of in vitro tumors could make it possible to perform large drug screenings…
Research in the Sierra Nevada region of California illustrates the varying flower choices of bumble bees. Many species of North American bumble bees have seen…
Researchers discover that butterflies have specialized behaviors and wing scales to protect the living parts of their wings; nanostructures found in the wing scales could…
Conservationists should be wary of assuming that genetic diversity loss in wildlife is always caused by humans, as new research published today by international conservation…
Many cells are covered with mysterious large holes, pores that have been associated with the sense of taste as well as Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and…
Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of the one-celled organisms called protists, at least…
Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, and it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym…
Brain-Cell Helpers Powered by Norepinephrine During Fear-Memory Formation A sustained state of vigilance will generate a different type of memory than a momentary startle, and…
When Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida in September 2017, the Category 5 storm offered a team of wildlife researchers a first-ever opportunity to observe…
Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn’t get very far. They rely on this sense to find a host to bite and spots to…
In the Pacific Northwest, the range expansion of Barred Owls has contributed to a conservation crisis for Northern Spotted Owls, which are being displaced from…
Researchers discover that neonicotinoid seed treatments are driving a dramatic increase in insecticide toxicity in U.S. agricultural landscapes, despite evidence that these treatments have little…
New UNSW research calls for national action to minimize the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams, and weirs. Australia’s devastating drought…
Researchers Analyzed Over One Million Records Representing Over 25,000 Species Across 80 Countries A first of its kind, global study on the impacts of human…