Biology News

A new study published in the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology sheds more light on unusual ‘curtains’ of biological material...

This is true for sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) and grey short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica), say biologists from Saint Petersburg State...

An international team of researchers from Australia, Argentina and Chile has found the answer to one of natural history’s most intriguing puzzles...

According to a new research published online in the journal Nature Communications, bone marrow cells that produce brain-derived neurotrophic factor, known...

Biologists have announced the discovery of a new species of scorpion, named Vaejovis brysoni, in the Santa Catalina Mountains in southern Arizona. Female...

The cockroach genus Pseudophoraspism has been reported from China for the first time. Top left: male Pseudophoraspis clavellata. Top right: male Pseudophoraspis...

Shark biologists have announced the discovery of two sharks never seen before in Australian waters. Mandarin dogfish, Cirrhigaleus barbifer (OpenCage.info...

A new research led by Dr Kimberley Seed from the Tufts University School of Medicine provides the first evidence that bacteriophages – viruses that...

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the Universidad de Granada and Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Spain,...

Biologists from the University of Bergen and the University of Vienna have studied a simple, brainless sea anemone to learn more about the evolutionary...

An ongoing study led by two San Francisco Bay Area scientists, Dr Roy Caldwell of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr Richard Ross of the California...

U.S. scientists have discovered that a protein called Jagged-1 stimulates stem cells to differentiate into bone-producing cells. Structure of the Jagged...

An international team of entomologists from Brazil and the United States has described a new species of tiny insect. The newly discovered forcepfly Austromerope...

A crew of marine biologists from Scotland and New Zealand, who just returned from a deep-ocean expedition to one of the deepest places on Earth –...

A new study in mice led by Prof Bo Li of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory examines how fear responses are learned, controlled, and memorized. The findings...

An international team of researchers has used an X-ray laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look for the first time at the structure and...

A new research published in the recent issue of the American Journal of Botany tries to explain how plants sense gravity, and how they direct or signal...

A paper published yesterday in the open access journal PLoS ONE describes a new species of scops owl, called the Rinjani Scops Owl, from the island of...

Microbiologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that different...