A Curtin University-led research team has found a way to synthetically create a firefly's glow that could have positive impacts on the access to medical light-imaging tools used to detect tumors and other diseases.
Biochemistry
Oct 27, 2022
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Meiotic drivers are a type of selfish gene. Present in the genomes of nearly all species, including humans, they unfairly transfer their genetic material to more than half of their offspring, sometimes leading to infertility, ...
Evolution
Oct 20, 2022
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The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct ...
Evolution
Oct 4, 2022
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If you are used to getting regular health checkups, you might be familiar with endoscopes. The endoscope is an imaging device consisting of a camera and a light guide attached to a long flexible tube. It is particularly useful ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 5, 2022
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The number of medical science publications by mixed-gender teams has grown rapidly over the past two decades, but remains underrepresented compared to what would be expected by chance.
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2022
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The remains of a famous Sami woman have been identified amongst Karolinska Institutet's anatomical collections. Representatives from the medical history and heritage department visited Malå on Friday, August 19, to present ...
Archaeology
Aug 22, 2022
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A fruit fly genome is not a just made up of fruit fly DNA—at least for one fruit fly species. New research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine's (UMSOM) Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) shows that one ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 2, 2022
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Griffith University researchers have discovered a genetic switch in a common bacterium that helps defend itself against the human body's natural immune system.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 2, 2022
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Like a child peering through a kaleidoscope, a biologist gazing through a microscope may be amazed by the beautiful geometric patterns formed by cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 21, 2022
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Physicists at the University of Münster are the first to successfully reveal the dynamic interaction of a class of artificial molecular machines—the so-called molecular shuttles—by using molecular-dynamic simulations. ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 5, 2022
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