Biology

New study revises biologists’ understanding of how limbs and lungs develop in humans.

Big data shows that large marine vertebrates move differently, but consistently, through coastal and ocean waters.

A team from RIEC has tested the human spatial ability to percieve our surroundings without actually seeing it.

Color changes in the northern Red Sea indicate rising sea temperatures could significantly impact tropical marine ecosystems.

An electronic tag that stretches and flexes while it records location and environmental data can monitor marine animals in their natural habitat.

In the longest running study of its kind, researchers found sea urchin populations were strongly affected by human-driven environmental changes.

Researchers show how a fish species in Lake Tanganyika works together to secure additional food sources.

Controlling plant pore openings for drought tolerance and delay in leaf withering

A Nagoya University-led study shows for the first time germ cells have an inherent property to feminize the body in teleost fish, medaka.

An enzyme that flips lipids from the outer to the inner layer of the cell membrane launches the process that permits cells to engulf external substances.

Researchers at Nagoya University develop fruit fly model to explore how learned auditory cues alter mating behavior and sexual preference.

Researchers at University of Malaya, Malaysia, have unveiled the various potential of regionally available non-edible oil-bearing plants.

New method offers a means of ‘efficient and high-throughout’ technique to study the structure of DNA.

HKUST Researchers Identify Irreversible Adverse Effects of Microbeads on Marine Animals’ Growth and Development

Researchers have discovered a rule to predict an arthropod community structure based on the genomic variation in a foundation tree species.

Researchers at Tohoku University have found that plants activate autophagy in their leaf cells to derive amino acids that are used for survival under energy-starved “hunger” conditions. The findings show that amino acid utilization in plants can be controlled by the manipulation of autophagy.

Researchers led by Nagoya University discover penetrative trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of western Mongolia, revealing earlier onset of the “agronomic revolution”.

Understanding how bacteria help convert glacier bedrock into soil could help address desertification.

New study shows that female hunting spiders do not respond to chemical signals given out by potential mates, preferring silk-wrapped food gifts instead.

Researchers identify and synthesize a sugar chain critical for plant fertilization. They call it AMOR.

A team of scientists, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), has unveiled that the bacterium Chromobacterium piscinae produces cyanide, an inhibitory molecule, to defend themselves in the battle against Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus HD100.

Clonal ants appear to be diverse in responding to sweetened water, suggesting epigenetic regulation in behavioral variation and colony survival.

Scientists successfully employed mutagenesis to identify the gene that causes hybrid sterility in rice, which is a major reproductive barrier between species.

Scientists from Hokkaido University and the University of Konstanz have discovered how male cockroaches detect the spatial distribution of female pheromones to locate a sexual mate.

Symbiotic ants manipulate aphid reproduction rates to achieve a specific mix of green and red aphids, maintaining the inferior green aphids which produce the ants' favorite snack.

Genetic analyses of a desert bacterium show it could help to improve crop production in arid lands.

Skin squames are a source of food for the bacteria found in air-cooling units, which produce odours even in a dust-free air-conditioning system, a research by Hong Kong Baptist University scholars revealed.

Researchers at Qatar University have provided an immense development in the field of fertilization and assisted reproduction technology by revealing major technical issues in the debate regarding the identity of the “sperm factor”.

A comparison of the genomes of two species of coral demonstrates unexpected genetic diversity.

Natural evolution has given us opposable thumbs, the ability to walk fully upright and brains that can reason. Now, scientists are poised to revolutionise fields from drug discovery to goods manufacturing by further harnessing evolution’s power in the laboratory.