Category: 5. Biology

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  • They Blew Up Tissues – And Found a Hidden World of Molecules

    They Blew Up Tissues – And Found a Hidden World of Molecules

    Scientists have developed an innovative technique that combines expansion microscopy with mass spectrometry imaging to visualize hundreds of biomolecules in intact tissues at single-cell resolution. This breakthrough could transform our…

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  • Researchers crack the code of cell movement

    Researchers crack the code of cell movement

    Scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin have created a data science framework to better understand how cells travel through the body. The researchers analyzed chemokines and their associated G…

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  • New and surprising traction trait in sculpin fish

    New and surprising traction trait in sculpin fish

    On a wave-battered rock in the Northern Pacific Ocean, a fish called the sculpin grips the surface firmly to maintain stability in its harsh environment. Unlike sea urchins, which use their glue-secreting tube feet to adhere to their…

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  • Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome may be driven by remnants of infection

    Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome may be driven by remnants of infection

    Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon — a 2022 study found that 14% of patients who were diagnosed and treated early with antibiotic therapy would still develop Post Treatment Lyme Disease (PTLD). Yet doctors…

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  • Hotter temps trigger wetlands to emit more methane as microbes struggle to keep up

    Hotter temps trigger wetlands to emit more methane as microbes struggle to keep up

    Rising temperatures could tip the scale in an underground battle that has raged for millennia. In the soils of Earth’s wetlands, microbes are fighting to both produce and consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane. But if the Earth gets too hot,…

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  • The antibiotic that takes the bite out of Lyme

    The antibiotic that takes the bite out of Lyme

    Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually. Even in acute cases, Lyme can be devastating; but early…

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  • Nature accounting in Colombia makes sound economic case for protecting native ecosystems

    Nature accounting in Colombia makes sound economic case for protecting native ecosystems

    The Sinú River in northwestern Colombia is a kind of bloodstream from which life emanates. Its heart lies within Paramillo National Park, where the river begins, moving through tropical rainforests and tropical dry forests before flowing down to…

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  • New Species of Electricity-Conducting Bacterium Discovered

    New Species of Electricity-Conducting Bacterium Discovered

    Electricity-conducting cable bacteria form a group of multicellular prokaryotes that enable electron transfer over centimeter-scale distances within marine and freshwater sediments. Biologists have isolated and characterized a new cable…

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