A sweeping new study led by a researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa reveals that almost every forest bird species in Hawaiʻi can transmit avian malaria. That widespread ability to spread infection helps explain why the disease shows…
Category: 5. Biology
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Eppendorf collaborates with Dubai Police to automate forensics laboratories
Eppendorf, a leading international life science company that develops, manufactures, and distributes instruments, consumables, and services for use in laboratories around the world, today announced a collaboration with Dubai Police…
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Carterra launches industry’s first 48-channel HT-SPR platform for advanced label-free biomolecular screening and characterization
Carterra Inc., the leading provider of technologies enabling high-throughput biology, today announced the launch of the Carterra Vega™ High-Throughput Surface Plasmon Resonance (HT-SPR) instrument. The industry’s first…
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Your cat’s purr says more than you think
A new study from researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the University of Naples Federico II has uncovered an unexpected truth about cat communication. A domestic cat’s purr reveals much more about its individual identity than its…
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A bonobo’s pretend tea party is rewriting what we know about imagination
In a set of playful experiments modeled after children’s tea parties, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have shown for the first time that apes can use imagination and take part in pretend play. This ability was long believed to belong only…
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Polygenic analysis provides new insight into hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome
Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (hEDS) is one of the most common heritable connective tissue disorders. Early estimates have reported that this genetic disorder affects at least one in 5,000 individuals and more recently it has…
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9 rare animals caught on camera in the ‘Amazon of Asia’
The results of a new camera-trap survey in Southeast Asia is revealing a bevy of…
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Chemical synthesis of novel aminopyrimidin-4-yl-1H-pyrazole derivatives as spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) inhibitors
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The core clock transcription factor TOC1 binds directly to defence gene promoters regulating immunity in Arabidopsis
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Bhardwaj, V., Meier, S., Petersen, L. N., Ingle, R. A. & Roden, L. C….
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fln-2 isoform-specifically regulates Caenorhabditis elegans health span by affecting pharyngeal function
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Sniderman, A. D. & Furberg, C. D. Age as a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular…
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