In the last decade, scientists have made tremendous progress in understanding that groups of bacteria and viruses that naturally coexist throughout the human body play an important role in some vital functions like digestion, ...
Cell & Microbiology
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What could Azteca ants in coffee farms in Mexico have in common with leopards' spots and zebras' stripes?
Plants & Animals
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Accurately reconstructing the relationships between different species requires analyzing the sequences of a judiciously selected, and preferably large, sample of different genes. Hybrid capture with high-throughput sequencing, ...
Plants & Animals
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A new study in the journal PLOS One says Glacier National Park's iconic mountain goats are in dire need of air conditioning.
Plants & Animals
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QUT researchers have used a combination of virtual reality (VR), aerial thermal-imaging and ground surveys to build a better statistical model for predicting the location of koalas and, ultimately, protecting their habitat.
Ecology
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Researchers at the Babraham Institute, EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), CRUK Cambridge Institute and the Wellcome—MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute have provided the first single-cell epigenomic analysis ...
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Research led by the University of Arizona has resulted in a set of equations that describes and predicts commonalities across life despite its enormous diversity.
Evolution
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Researchers at the EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have created the largest reference phosphoproteome to date of almost 120,000 human phosphosites. To identify those most likely to be critical, they used ...
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What if scientists could create more effective drugs to treat cancers and other diseases by better targeting specific sites on proteins in the body?
Molecular & Computational biology
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For years, aquatic researchers have sought an easy way to determine when wild fish are under stress. Now University of Guelph researchers have shown for the first time that a key stress hormone, cortisol, accumulates in fish ...
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