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Marine sponge from the Sugashima coast, Japan (IMAGE) - EurekAlert! Science News Releases
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (63+ words) Marine sponge from the Sugashima coast, Japan (IMAGE)EurekAlert! Science News Releases Marine sponge from the Sugashima coast in Japan, where researchers isolated multicellular-prone Hortaea werneckii. All strains were found on the surfaces of marine animals like these, where the…...
Geometry shapes life
4+ day, 24+ min ago (525+ words) Embryo geometry has to be firm'without it, cells would be all over the map image:Postdoc collaboration at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). ISTA's Nikhil Mishra and Yuting Irene Li are looking for tiny striped zebrafish hiding…...
Genome Research publishes a special issue on advances in computational biology and their applications in genomics
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (558+ words) Credit: Genome Research RECOMB Special Issue LLOKI (Haber et al. 2025) is a method for integrating image-based spatial transcriptomics data across multiple platforms by incorporating feature alignment across gene panels and batch alignment across technologies. When tested on real data, LLOKI…...
The ISSCR, Society for Developmental Biology, and the Allen Institute to host first collaborative scientific symposium
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (325+ words) The event will take place 23-25 September 2026 in Seattle, USA Alessandro Bertero, University of Torino, Italy Ken Cho, University of California, Irvine, USA Gideon Dunster, Allen Institute, USA Whitney Edwards, University of North Carolina, USA Evan Graham, BioLamina, USA Valentina Greco,…...
New method offers broader and faster detection of protein-ligand interactions
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (379+ words) EMBL scientists improve a protein analysis technique, significantly expanding its use and making it 100 times faster " a development that could accelerate drug discovery and fundamental biological research image:HT-PELSA identifies protein-ligand interactions by tracking how ligand binding affects protein local…...
With no prior training, dogs can infer how similar types of toys work, even when they don’t look alike
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (475+ words) image:Gaia with a pile of toys view more Gaia with a pile of toys "We discovered that these Gifted Word Learner dogs can extend labels to items that have the same function or that are used in the same…...
New conservation committee led by Applied Microbiology International calls on science community to get on board with microbial conservation
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (414+ words) The team behind a new world-leading conservation committee headed by Applied Microbiology International (AMI) is calling on global scientific and conservation communities to get on board to protect microbial life. Members of the new IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group (MCSG)…...
Under The Lens: Professor Raquel Peixoto reveals how tourists armed with probiotics could save the world’s coral reefs
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (390+ words) Imagine that, rather like buying food at the zoo to feed the animals, snorkellers could buy a probiotic to sprinkle on coral reefs during diving trips, doing their part in the global drive to restore damaged marine habitats. That's one…...
DNA glycosylation: a new frontier in molecular biology
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (683+ words) Could DNA be glycosylated? A new study published in Engineering explores this intriguing question, suggesting that DNA might undergo glycosylation, a process that could revolutionize our understanding of cellular biology. Discover how this potential discovery could impact the ceullar sociomateriality…...
Study finds humpback whales only ones capable of bubble-net feeding
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (309+ words) image:Dr. Will Gough deploying a Customized Animal Tracking Solutions (CATS) tag on a humpback whale in Alaska. view more Credit: Alaska Whale Foundation "This is a great example of a collaborative research project that took advantage of datasets from…...