Biology

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is characterized by the progressive malfunction and failure of insulin-releasing beta cells. Researchers at DZD have now demonstrated that mice with and…

Aging is the progressive loss of functional integrity and homeostasis that leads to death. Old age is associated with an increase in diseases that are…

Root tips generate new growth and absorb soil water and nutrients. The taproot grows downward, while the lateral roots spread out. Furthermore, the roots provide…

Viral abundance in soil can range from below detection limits in hot deserts to over 1 billion per gram in wetlands. Although water availability and…

Antibiotics are antibiotics that are used to prevent and treat bacterial infections. Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria adapt to the use of these medications. Antibiotic…

The Americas were the final continent to see human habitation. An expanding corpus of archaeological and genetic data suggests a complicated process of colonisation. This…

A team of scientists at University of Oxford have worked with multiple techniques at Diamond Light Source, to solve the structure of the influenza replication…

Novel diagnostic tools that capture molecular activity at a disease site in vivo are required with the advent of personalized medicine to better understand an…

Scientists discovered that in one out of every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from our mitochondria – the “batteries” that power our cells…

An ancestral species is a common ancestor if it is shared as an ancestor by two or more descendant species. When we say a trait…

Louse, any of two groups of small wingless parasitic insects: the Amblycera and Ischnocera, or chewing or biting lice, which are parasites of both birds…

The most complete Jurassic fossil lizard ever discovered was discovered in Scotland. The new Bellairsia gracilis specimen is helping to reveal what lizard and snake…