Fossil hunters strike gold with new species
Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool’s […]
Scientists identify six novel genes linked to cancer risk microbiologystudy
Cumulative incidence of cancer among carriers and noncarriers. Credit: Nature Genetics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01966-6. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01966-6 Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen, and
Newly discovered cyanobacteria could help sequester carbon from oceans and factories
An international coalition of researchers from the United States and Italy has discovered a novel strain of cyanobacteria, or algae,
Large-scale genetic study identifies targets that could reduce cardiovascular risk by modulating blood metabolites microbiologystudy
Graphical abstract of the performed analyses and main results. GWAS: Genome-wide association study. TWAS: Transcriptome-wide association study. MR: Mendelian randomization.
Weddell seals in the Antarctic strategically time their most extreme dives to maximize foraging
Erebus Bay, Antarctica, is home to the southernmost population of the world’s southernmost living mammal — the Weddell seal. These
Scientists build spatiotemporal multi-omics database for human and non-human primate brains microbiologystudy
Credit: Nucleic Acids Research (2024). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae911 Recent years have seen a vast amount of multi-omics data related to brain
Ancient gene influences immunity of First Nations Peoples of Oceania microbiologystudy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An ancient gene mutation among First Nations inhabitants of Oceania may make them more susceptible to
Researchers unravel how a breast cancer gene affects fertility microbiologystudy
Credit: CC0 Public Domain University of Oregon biologists have uncovered a mechanism by which a well-known breast cancer gene also
What animal societies can teach us about aging
Red deer may become less sociable as they grow old to reduce the risk of picking up diseases, while older