Tag Archives: Biology

[ad_1] According to a University of Michigan study, a high-sugar diet reprograms the taste cells in fruit flies, blunting their sensitivity to sugar and leaving a “molecular memory” on their tongues. By examining fruit flies, researchers Monica Dus, Anoumid Vaziri and collaborators found that high-sugar diets completely remodeled the taste …

[ad_1] IMAGE: The northern cardinal has relatively low frequency chant and delayed playback in response to noise pollution. View More Credit: David Keeling Are you looking for a bird’s-eye view of human impact? A new study published in the journal Nature provides the most comprehensive picture of how human noise …

[ad_1] Swiss molecular biologists have created an analog of the heart of a mouse embryo from stem cells. The main advantage of embryonic organelles is that many different tissues develop parallel within them. They exchange the same fundamental signals for the correct growth of the embryo. The heart cells that …

[ad_1] The latest animation technology has revealed the molecular details of how our bodies are protected from cancer by a key “tumor suppressor” protein called p53. The new WEHI-TV animation displays the findings of more than 40 years of research to explain how the tumor suppressor protein p53 normally prevents …

[ad_1] Scientists have developed an optical elastography technique that could revolutionize the accuracy and ease with which healthcare professionals can detect biomechanical changes in cells and tissues. A study derived from an international collaboration between the University of Exeter, the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Perugia (Italy) …

[ad_1] A fossil that had been languishing in a museum drawer in Brighton, wrongly labeled as a shark fin skeleton, has now been identified as an entirely new species of prehistoric flying reptile that soared majestically over what are now marshes of the Cambridgeshire. Roy Smith, a PhD student at …

[ad_1] The artist’s interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill knowledge gaps about the microbes that play key roles in Earth’s microbiomes. (Credit: Zosia Rostomian / Berkeley Lab) Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods over the past decade, researchers have discovered genomes …

[ad_1] FP trend10 November 2020 20:42:26 Scientists have found a way to mentally teleport mice to a different location by stimulating a neuron in their brain. The team used laser beams to reactivate the cells. The researchers used light to read and write electrical activity in the brain. The mice …

[ad_1] IMAGE: A night vision camera trap captured this image of mountain lions drinking from a stream in Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. View More Credit: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve When the wolves returned to Yellowstone in 1995, no one imagined that predators would literally change the course of rivers …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Microinjection of CRISPR-Cas9 reagents into the fertilized coral egg view (Acropora millepora) More Credits: Phillip Cleves, Carnegie Institute for Science – Department of Embryology An international research project used gene editing technology to examine the heat tolerance of coral on the Great Barrier Reef with the set results …