Category: 5. Biology

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  • How plants know when to bloom

    How plants know when to bloom

    As spring weather settles over the Northern Hemisphere, those barren branches…

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  • Sperm Whales Caught on Camera Headbutting Each Other for the First Time

    Sperm Whales Caught on Camera Headbutting Each Other for the First Time

    In 1820, The Essex, a whaling ship, was attacked and sunk by two head-on strikes from a sperm whale near the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. “It appeared with tenfold fury and vengeance in his aspect,” the first mate Owen Chase later

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  • AI-driven atlas reveals how mouth fibroblasts regulate structural immunity

    AI-driven atlas reveals how mouth fibroblasts regulate structural immunity

    Researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center are leading an international study that advances the understanding of the immunoregulatory nature of human tissues, offering breakthrough insights into how fibroblasts serve as…

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  • New protein atlas identifies distinct subtypes of neurodegenerative diseases

    New protein atlas identifies distinct subtypes of neurodegenerative diseases

    Neurodegenerative diseases form a tangled biological web with overlapping molecular signatures and symptoms. To decode this complexity, a multi-institute collaboration led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists…

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  • New computational method links individual cells to patient outcomes

    New computational method links individual cells to patient outcomes

    A computational method called scSurv, developed by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo, links individual cells to patient outcomes using widely available bulk RNA sequencing data. The approach uses single-cell reference…

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  • Machine learning speeds up AMP discovery for treating ulcerative colitis

    Machine learning speeds up AMP discovery for treating ulcerative colitis

    A machine learning-based computational approach to accelerate therapeutic discovery

    Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease characterized by recurrent intestinal inflammation, abdominal pain and diarrhea….

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  • Fluorescent imaging enables real-time observation of Toxoplasma gondii’s growth

    Fluorescent imaging enables real-time observation of Toxoplasma gondii’s growth

    It infects nearly one-third of the global population, yet its microscopic size makes the Toxoplasma gondii parasite difficult for scientists to study.

    A recent University of South Florida-led study published in Bio-Protocol

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  • An Immune Reaction to EBV can Lead to MS-Related Brain Damage

    An Immune Reaction to EBV can Lead to MS-Related Brain Damage

    Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections are very common–the vast majority of adults are thought to have been infected at some point. But there has also been mounting evidence that EBV is connected to the…

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  • An Immune Reaction to EBV can Lead to MS-Related Brain Damage

    An Immune Reaction to EBV can Lead to MS-Related Brain Damage

    Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections are very common–the vast majority of adults are thought to have been infected at some point. But there has also been mounting evidence that EBV is connected to the…

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