Red milkweed beetle genome offers insight into plant-insect interactions
Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed beetle can safely feed on a toxic plant helps illuminate the […]
Biochemistry
Evolution in real time | ScienceDaily
It is 1988. The Koster archipelago, a group of islands off the Swedish west coast near the border with Norway,
Cord blood cells can build a better human immune system into mice
Immunity plays a central role in the fight against cancer. Many of the current immunotherapies aim at helping the patient’s
Macaques give birth more easily than women: No maternal mortality at birth
An international research team led by the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna has used long-term demographic
How playing songs to Darwin’s finches helped biologists confirm link between environment and the emergence of new species
They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation — which holds that new species emerge
A new method makes high-resolution imaging more accessible
A classical way to image nanoscale structures in cells is with high-powered, expensive super-resolution microscopes. As an alternative, MIT researchers
Rates of a tick-borne parasitic disease are on the rise
Rates of babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic disease, increased an average of 9% per year in the United States between 2015
In a warming world, public needs to know more about protections from mosquito-borne illnesses
The hospitalization last summer of Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with
Keeping it together: How calcium signals help cells bury their dead neighbors
A research team from Kyushu University in Japan has recently discovered a calcium-based mechanism that plays a key role in