From a box of Cracker Jack to The Da Vinci Code, everybody enjoys deciphering secret messages. But biomedical engineers at...
New UMBC-led research in Frontiers in Microbiology suggests that viruses are using information from their environment to “decide” when to...
An international team of biologists and theoretical physicists from Dresden (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems), Cambridge,...
Research on decomposition often focuses on environmental factors like temperature or humidity, but researchers at the University of Tennessee in...
Engineered living materials promise to aid efforts in human health, energy and environmental remediation. Now they can be built big...
Bustling with exciting urban opportunities, cities are attractive not only to human residents. Many creatures happily share human settlements, feasting...
LMU researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that enables trypanosomes to reach the salivary glands of the flies. Tsetse...
A recent study of the gut microbiome of Alaskan brown bears (Ursus arctos) shows that the microbial life in bears’...
It turns out sperm go against the flow better when they swim together. Despite the popular idea that the fastest...
Small but mighty, lysosomes play a surprisingly important role in cells despite their diminutive size. Making up only 1-3% of...
Feeding honey to hibernating bears helped Washington State University researchers find the potential genetic keys to the bears’ insulin control,...
Mosquitoes that spread Zika, dengue and yellow fever are guided toward their victims by a scent from human skin. The...
