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Plants & Animals Jul 26, 2024

Using fire management to see how ticks... tick

The morning alarm goes off, and it's time to get ready for work. Ph.D. student Samuel Gilvarg has already pretreated his clothes with permethrin insecticide. All that's left is to pull his socks up and over his pant legs.

Cell & Microbiology Jul 26, 2024

New interaction network in endocytosis process discovered

AP180 is a protein involved in endocytosis and in signal transmission between nerve cells. This protein, which largely lacks a three-dimensional structure, has never been fully studied.

Bio & Medicine Jul 26, 2024

New nanoparticles boost immune system in mice to fight melanoma and breast cancer

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a set of nanoparticles that stimulate the immune system in mice to fight cancer and may eventually do the same in humans.

Plants & Animals Jul 25, 2024

The road to food security through better plant disease management

The colorful history of plant pathology in Australia since colonization is the subject of a special edition of Historical Records of Australian Science, edited by QAAFI's Associate Professor Andrew Geering.

Molecular & Computational biology Jul 25, 2024

New study confirms mammal-to-mammal avian flu spread

A new study provides evidence that a spillover of avian influenza from birds to dairy cattle across several U.S. states has now led to mammal-to-mammal transmission—between cows and from cows to cats and a raccoon.

Molecular & Computational biology Jul 24, 2024

Using AI, bird flu study shows greater antibody evasion in newer H5N1 strains

In a new study led by UNC Charlotte researchers from the Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER) and the North Carolina Research Campus at Kannapolis, University scholars have ...

Biotechnology Jul 24, 2024

Scientists hijack natural delivery system to send engineered proteins to target cells

Each cell in the body has its own unique delivery system that scientists are working on harnessing to move revolutionary biological drugs—molecules like proteins, RNA and combinations of the two—to specific diseased parts ...

Plants & Animals Jul 23, 2024

Systematic monitoring: Gray wolf autopsy findings since the species' comeback to Germany

At the turn of the millennium, gray wolves returned to Germany after 150 years and subsequently established territories in many parts of the country. But coexistence harbors challenges—for both humans and animals. Since ...

Plants & Animals Jul 23, 2024

Lethal bird flu could decimate Oceania's birds—from vigilance to vaccines, here's what Australia is doing to prepare

Avian influenza viruses have infected the world's birds for millennia. We first became aware of them in the 19th century, when mass deaths of poultry triggered interest in what was then called "fowl plague."

Biochemistry Jul 23, 2024

Chemists develop test to track crucial edits to RNA

A research team's new technique could help scientists worldwide identify novel targets for cancer therapies.

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