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How Body Senses Cold Has Been Mystery - Until Now
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (748+ words) When you reach into a bucket of ice, step outside on a snowy day, or feel the tingle of menthol toothpaste, a protein in your nerve cells called TRPM8 springs into action, opening like a tiny gate to send a "cold…...
Seminar: The Rare Microbiome, Contamination and Planetary Protection
47+ min ago (389+ words) Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na'Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) " Seminar: The Rare Microbiome, Contamination and Planetary Protection Pushing back the detection limits,…...
Stolen Chloroplasts Maintained By Host-made Proteins Offer Clues To Plant Cell Origins
51+ min ago (304+ words) Every plant cell is the product of a biological merger billions of years ago. Chloroplasts are key structures in plants and algae that capture sunlight, but originally they were free-living bacteria that took up residence inside another cell. Over time,…...
Mouse study shows repeated cloning causes grave genetic mutations
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (600+ words) March 24 (Reuters) - Revealing the "limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial duplication triggers grave genetic mutations that accumulate over the generations and ultimately become fatal. The research contradicted the notion that…...
A Cells' Active Genes Can Now be Seen in Unprecedented Detail | Genetics And Genomics
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (215+ words) This latest technique is called Seq-Scope-eXpanded, or Seq-Scope-X. It enables scientists to visualize the barriers between cells and the genetic transcripts they contain, even when they are in different parts of the cell, such as the cytoplasm or nucleus. "We…...
Plant Pathologist receives FPSI Fellowship
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (206+ words) Mysore/Mysuru: Dr. S. Shankara Bhat, Plant Pathologist and former Professor of Botany and Microbiology Department, University of Mysore (UoM), was conferred the prestigious FPSI (Fellow of Indian Phytopathological Society-2024) Fellowship in recognition of his lifelong contributions to Plant Health Management....
Join the Summer School in TranscriptOMICS in Develoment and Disease — Sweden, June 23-26, 2026
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (218+ words) Posted by Claudio Cant, on 24 March 2026 The School will be a4-day (23-26 June 2026) Theory&Computation coursein asplendid Swedish inlandResort(2 hours away from Stockholm " our bus will bring you there at no additional cost from a nearby train station). The first editions…...
Weaning May Train the Gut for Stronger Immunity Later
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (546+ words) According to a team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Tongji University and collaborating institutions, weaning or switching from milk to solid food in early life doesn't just change what babies eat, it helps reprogram the gut's immune defenses…...
Systems and Information Biology (BSc) | The Intersection of Biology & Computer Science | Undergraduate Admissions - Apply Here - Concordia University
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (550+ words) Why does one person develop a debilitating disease early in life while another lives to be 100? How can we engineer microbes to produce new drugs or develop sustainable technologies? How can we develop better conservation strategies based on our understanding…...
Aggregates of gypsum crystals in stromatolitic sample from northern Chile.
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (69+ words) Aggregates of gypsum crystals in stromatolitic sample from northern Chile. (IMAGE)EurekAlert! Pink arrows point to spherical, radiating aggregates of gypsum crystals observed in the lower part of stromatolitic sample from Salar de Pajonales in northern Chile. These structures illustrate…...