How conflicting memories of sex and starvation compete to drive behavior, study in worms shows
Two conflicting memories can both be activated in a worm’s brain, even if only one memory actively drives the animal’s […]
Scientists transform blood into regenerative materials, paving the way for personalized, blood-based, 3D-printed implants
Scientists have created a new ‘biocooperative’ material based on blood, which has shown to successfully repair bones, paving the way
Genetics
Scientists discover a rare missense variant in STAT6 that protects against asthma microbiologystudy
p.L406P is a partial LOF variant. Credit: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2024.10.002 Scientists at deCODE genetics
Living microbes discovered in Earth’s driest desert microbiologystudy
The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely
Biologists reveal the genetic ‘switch’ behind parrot color diversity
From the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro to the shoulders of pirates: parrots are synonymous with colour for people across
Generation of rat offspring from ovarian oocytes by cross-species transplantation
The idea of maturing oocytes in the ovary to produce offspring has been implemented in various ways. One such method,
Zinc deficiency promotes Acinetobacter lung infection, study finds microbiologystudy
Dietary zinc deficiency promotes lung infection by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria — a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia, according to a
A new technology to isolate immunostimulatory members of the human gut microbiota: Next-generation IgA-seq microbiologystudy
Scientists at UMC Utrecht have developed a new technology to efficiently isolate a specific subset of gut bacteria from fecal
FDA grants orphan drug designation to potential treatment of STXBP1 developmental and epileptic encephalopathy microbiologystudy
DNA, which has a double-helix structure, can have many genetic mutations and variations. Credit: NIH Research that was carried out