Slashdot Items Tagged "biology"

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Friday April 12, 2024 @05:23PM Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle
Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:55PM Company That Plans To Bring Back the Mammoth Takes a Key Step
Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:54PM Google DeepMind Alumni Unveil Bioptimus: Aiming To Build First Universal Biology AI Model
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:13PM Scientists Solve the Mystery of How Jellyfish Can Regenerate a Tentacle In Days
Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:11PM Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Morning Sickness To Hormone Made By Fetus
Friday November 10, 2023 @07:20PM Scientists Build Yeast With Artificial DNA
Thursday September 07, 2023 @06:20PM Humanized Kidneys Grown Inside Pigs For the First Time
Monday June 26, 2023 @09:34PM Scientists Debut Lab Models of Human Embryos
Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:26PM Quantum Coherence Found Fueling Photosynthesis
Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:33AM 'Breakthrough' Could Explain Why Life Molecules Are Left- Or Right-Handed
Wednesday April 26, 2023 @06:55PM 'Game Changer' Method Lets Scientists Peer Into -- and Fly Through -- Mouse Bodies
Monday April 24, 2023 @06:12PM Moths Are More Efficient Pollinators Than Bees, Shows New Research
Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:22AM Researchers Discover Why Zebras Have Stripes
Tuesday June 28, 2022 @06:38PM Octopus and Human Brains Share the Same 'Jumping Genes'
Wednesday March 09, 2022 @07:41PM Bringing Back Extinct Creatures May Be Impossible
Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:01PM Largest Bacterium Ever Discovered Has An Unexpectedly Complex Cell
Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:58PM Your Sense of Smell May Be the Key To a Balanced Diet
Monday August 23, 2021 @07:02PM Mathematical Model Predicts Best Way To Build Muscle
Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:21PM Shedding Light On the Mechanism of Magnetic Sensing In Birds
Friday May 28, 2021 @08:32PM Primates Change Their 'Accent' To Avoid Conflict
Tuesday November 24, 2020 @04:51PM 'I Should Have Loved Biology'
Thursday November 05, 2020 @06:36PM The T-Cell Immune Response To COVID-19 Lasts At Least Six Months
Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:20PM Scientists Create Glowing Plants Using Mushroom Genes
Friday April 17, 2020 @05:20PM Possible Dinosaur DNA Has Been Found
Monday April 13, 2020 @05:54PM Scientists Develop Potentially Vital Nasal Vaccine For Treating Alzheimer's
Friday April 03, 2020 @06:13PM Physical Force Alone Spurs Gene Expressions, Study Reveals
Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:04PM Scientists Reveal How Proteins Team Up To Repair DNA
Monday January 27, 2020 @08:24PM Nanocontainers Introduced Into the Nucleus of Living Cells
Monday January 13, 2020 @09:13PM Scientists Use Stems Cells From Frogs To Build First Living Robots
Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:46PM 142,000 People, Mostly Children, Died From Measles In 2018
Sunday November 10, 2019 @07:14PM How Some Fast Rood Restaurant Chains Are Confronting the Threat of Antibiotic Resistance
Monday November 04, 2019 @06:16AM America's Biggest Restaurant Chains Scored On Their Antibiotic Use
Monday October 28, 2019 @07:13PM Origin of Modern Humans 'Traced To Botswana'
Monday October 28, 2019 @06:22PM Origin Of Modern Humans 'Traced To Botswana'
Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:01AM Human Babies In the Womb Have Lizard-Like Hand Muscles
Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:41PM Human Babies In The Womb Have Lizard-like Hand And Feet Muscles
Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:14PM CRISPR Gene-Editing May Offer Path To Cure For HIV, First Published Report Shows
Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:04PM Chemists Discover Water Microdroplets Spontaneously Produce Hydrogen Peroxide
Friday July 26, 2019 @11:09PM New Cause of Cell Aging Discovered: Senescent Cells Stop Producing Nucleotides
Tuesday July 02, 2019 @02:57AM Researchers Identify the Origins of Metabolism
Monday June 10, 2019 @09:22PM Type A Blood Converted To Universal Donor Blood With Help From Bacterial Enzyme
Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:33PM Scientists Invent Light-Activated Bio-Glue That Stops Bleeding In Seconds
Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:58PM Scientists Create World's First Living Organism With Fully Redesigned DNA
Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:49PM How a Half-Inch Beetle Finds Fires 80 Miles Away
Thursday May 09, 2019 @12:35PM Urban Trees Grow Fast and Die Young
Monday May 06, 2019 @05:24PM Organisms That Breathe Arsenic Discovered In the Pacific Ocean
Monday May 06, 2019 @05:18PM Filming How Our Immune System Kills Bacteria
Friday April 19, 2019 @08:16PM Bacteria Use Viruses To Differentiate Themselves From Their Competitors, Study Finds
Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:21PM 'Partly Alive': Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs
Monday April 15, 2019 @11:14PM Researchers 3D-Print Heart From Human Patient's Cells
Monday April 15, 2019 @06:56PM Immune Cells May Play a Role In Causing Cavities
Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:12PM How Diet May Have Changed the Way Humans Speak
Monday March 18, 2019 @05:22PM Scientists Grow 'Mini-Brain On the Move' That Can Contract Muscle
Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:04PM Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth
Friday January 18, 2019 @07:55PM Researchers Created Artificial Cells That Can Communicate With Each Other
Thursday January 17, 2019 @08:49PM Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible
Friday December 21, 2018 @07:53PM An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem
Sunday December 02, 2018 @11:36PM New Male Contraceptive Gel Enters Clinical Trials
Friday November 30, 2018 @08:59PM Turns Out Mitochondria Can Come From Fathers Too
Friday November 09, 2018 @11:57AM How Biologists Are Creating Life-like Cells From Scratch
Monday October 08, 2018 @08:20PM Successful Correction of Genetic Problems In Mice Before Birth Raises Hopes of Similar Treatments For Humans
Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:08PM Scientists Are Working To Eliminate Senescent Cells
Monday September 24, 2018 @09:58PM Gut-Brain Connection Could Lead To a 'New Sense'
Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:23PM Scientists Calculate the Speed of Death In Cells And It's 30 Micrometers Per Minute
Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:02PM Plan To Replicate 50 High-Impact Cancer Papers Shrinks To Just 18
Sunday July 29, 2018 @03:50PM A New Shape Called the 'Scutoid' Has Been Discovered In Our Cells
Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:38PM Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate
Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:32AM Inside the Effort To Print Lungs and Breathe Life Into Them With Stem Cells
Thursday June 21, 2018 @12:54AM Mature Fish Are Found In Deeper Water Because of Humans
Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:21PM Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report
Friday May 11, 2018 @10:28PM Scientists To Grow 'Mini-Brains' Using Neanderthal DNA
Friday May 04, 2018 @01:10PM 'Biology Will Be the Next Big Computing Platform'
Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:07PM Scientists Explain the Sound of Knuckle Cracking
Monday December 11, 2017 @07:46PM Synthetic DNA-Based Drug Is First To Slow Progress of Huntington's Disease
Wednesday November 01, 2017 @07:24PM Scientists Have Mathematical Proof That It's Impossible To Stop Aging
Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:58PM Nobel Prize In Chemistry Shared By 3 For Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:40PM Breast-Cancer Death Rate Drops Almost 40 Percent, Saving 322,000 Lives, Study Says
Tuesday October 03, 2017 @10:25AM When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person?
Monday October 02, 2017 @04:49PM Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded For Insights Into Internal Biological Clock
Friday September 01, 2017 @05:09PM Researchers Discover Enzyme That Harnesses Light To Make Hydrocarbons
Wednesday August 30, 2017 @06:35PM Floating Fire Ants Form Rafts In Houston Floodwaters
Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:06PM NASA is Sending Bacteria Into the Sky on Balloons During the Eclipse
Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:57PM Scientists Create DNA-Based Exploit of a Computer System
Friday August 04, 2017 @05:31PM Lovers Share Colonies of Skin Microbes, Study Finds
Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:53PM New Research Shows Humans Could Outrun T. Rex
Thursday July 13, 2017 @06:05PM Biologists Use Gene Editing To Store Movies In DNA
Wednesday July 12, 2017 @05:28PM Era of 'Biological Annihilation' Is Underway, Scientists Warn
Monday July 03, 2017 @06:42PM Men Are Affected By the Biological Clock As Well, Researchers Find
Friday June 16, 2017 @10:45AM Mathematical Biology Is Our Secret Weapon In the Fight Against Disease
Monday May 22, 2017 @04:39PM Microsoft Wants To Use DNA For Cloud Data Storage
Friday May 19, 2017 @05:47PM Chemists May Be Zeroing In On Chemical Reactions That Sparked the First Life
Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:42PM Scientists 3D-Print Ovaries To Allow Infertile Mice To Mate and Give Birth
Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:51PM A Baffling Brain Defect Is Linked to Gut Bacteria, Scientists Say
Tuesday May 02, 2017 @06:16PM 18-Year-Old Mexican Student Designs Bra That Can Detect Breast Cancer
Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:20PM Supercomputers Assist In Search For New, Better Cancer Drugs
Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:35PM An Artificial Womb Successfully Grew Baby Sheep -- and Humans Could Be Next
Monday April 24, 2017 @04:59PM A Caterpillar May Lead To a 'Plastic Pollution' Solution
Friday April 21, 2017 @08:16PM 107 Cancer Papers Retracted Due To Peer Review Fraud
Tuesday March 28, 2017 @08:13PM Scientists Turn Mammalian Cells Into Complex Biocomputers
Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:53PM Molecule Kills Elderly Cells, Reduces Signs of Aging In Mice
Friday March 17, 2017 @07:40PM Climate Shaped the Human Nose, Researchers Say
Friday March 17, 2017 @01:39PM What If You Could Eat Chicken Without Killing a Chicken?
Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:36PM Unproven Stem Cell Treatments Blind 3 Women
Friday March 10, 2017 @06:40PM Scientists Create 'Designer Yeast' In Major Step Toward Synthetic Life
Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:57PM IBM Researchers Prove It Is Possible To Store Data In a Single Atom
Friday February 17, 2017 @11:27PM Genetically-Modified 'Surrogate Hens' Could Lay Eggs of Rare Chicken Breeds, Scientists Say
Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:46PM Scientists Use Stem Cells To Grow Animal-Free Pork In a Lab
Friday February 10, 2017 @06:48PM First Gene Drive In Mammals Could Aid Vast New Zealand Eradication Plan
Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:00PM 2K Games Wins the Right To Store and Share Your Biometric Facial Data
Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:00AM Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long
Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:42PM Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Monday January 16, 2017 @06:10PM Scientists Turn Docile Mice Into Ruthless Hunters
Wednesday January 11, 2017 @11:03PM Scientists Use Stem Cells To Regenerate the External Layer of a Human Heart
Thursday December 22, 2016 @08:22PM New Test Spots Human Form of Mad Cow Disease With 100-Percent Accuracy
Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:04PM Human Cells Naturally 'Eat' Silicon Nanowires
Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:23PM Aging Process May Be Reversable, Scientists Claim
Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:36PM First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber
Friday December 02, 2016 @05:02PM Alien Life Could Thrive In the Clouds of Failed Stars
Monday November 28, 2016 @09:34PM Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds
Saturday November 26, 2016 @08:49PM Brain Cancer Patients Live Longer By Sending Electric Fields Through Their Heads
Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:14PM New data about the parasite worm causing "river blindness" published
Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:39PM Every Year of Smoking Causes About 150 New DNA Mutations That Can Make Cancer More Likely, Says Study
Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:52PM Study Finds That Athletes Perform Better When Reminded of Their Impending Death
Saturday October 15, 2016 @07:42AM Maths Becomes Biology's Magic Number
Friday October 07, 2016 @09:41PM Teens' Penchant For Risk-Taking May Help Them Learn Faster, Says Study
Tuesday October 04, 2016 @07:39PM 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Far Bigger Than Imagined, Aerial Survey Shows
Tuesday October 04, 2016 @04:59PM British Trio Wins Nobel Prize In Physics For Study of Exotic Matter
Tuesday October 04, 2016 @12:42AM Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan Wins Nobel Prize In Medicine For Study of Cell Recycling
Tuesday September 27, 2016 @01:48PM World's First Baby Born With New '3 Parent' Technique
Wednesday September 21, 2016 @06:27PM Smoking Permanently Damages Your DNA, Study Finds
Tuesday September 20, 2016 @05:11PM Microsoft Will 'Solve' Cancer Within The Next 10 Years By Treating It Like A Computer Virus, Says Company
Sunday September 18, 2016 @06:07PM Oldest-Ever Proteins Extracted From 3.8-Million-Year-Old Ostrich Shells
Friday September 02, 2016 @04:51PM FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used In Antibacterial Soaps
Saturday August 20, 2016 @02:16AM Marijuana Provides More Pain Relief For Men Than Woman, Says Study
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @08:10PM Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green
Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:05PM 8 Paralyzed Patients Learn To Walk Again Using Virtual Reality
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:50PM 6 Million Americans Exposed To High Levels of Chemicals In Drinking Water, Says Study
Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:25PM Brains of Overweight People Look Ten Years Older Than Those of Lean Peers, Says Report
Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:05PM Scientists Argue the US Ban on Human Gene Editing Will Leave It Behind
Monday August 01, 2016 @06:14PM Elizabeth Holmes Finally Releases Theranos Data, Including A 'miniLab'
Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:45PM ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Funding Leads To New Genetic Findings
Tuesday July 26, 2016 @11:43PM Florida Regulators OK Plan To Increase Toxins In Water
Friday July 22, 2016 @07:23PM CRISPR: Chinese Scientists To Pioneer Gene-Editing Trial On Humans
Tuesday July 19, 2016 @08:31PM Neuroscientists Have Isolated The Part Of The Brain That Controls Free Will
Friday July 15, 2016 @05:53PM Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat?
Friday July 15, 2016 @04:39PM Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger?
Friday July 15, 2016 @01:35AM Alzheimer's Gene Already Shrinking Brain By Age of Three
Tuesday July 12, 2016 @12:58AM Study Shows Thumb-Sucking and Nail-Biting Can Be Good For Kids
Thursday July 07, 2016 @07:09PM Robot Stingray Is Powered By Rat Heart Cells
Monday July 04, 2016 @06:38PM Researchers Develop Electronic Nose To Sniff Out Pesticides and Nerve Gas
Monday June 27, 2016 @06:12PM Physicists Confirm a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, and It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever
Monday June 20, 2016 @09:33PM Ultra-Thin Solar Cells Can Be Bent Around A Pencil
Friday June 17, 2016 @04:53PM Cancer Is An Evolutionary Mechanism To 'Autocorrect' Our Gene Pool, Suggests Paper
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:19PM WHO: Drinking Extremely Hot Coffee, Tea 'Probably' Causes Cancer
Friday June 03, 2016 @11:25AM It's Time To Ignore Petty Politics and Focus On 'Transformative' Tech: Eric Schmidt
Monday May 30, 2016 @05:19PM 'Huge Wake Up Call': Third of Central, Northern Great Barrier Reef Corals Dead
Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:32PM Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time
Wednesday May 25, 2016 @07:17PM Researchers Teaching Robots To Feel and React To Pain
Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:32AM Scientists Discover Why Your Dirty Laundry Stinks
Friday May 20, 2016 @11:07PM Scientists Say Nuclear Fuel Pools Pose Safety, Health Risks
Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:36PM Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'?
Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:16PM Scientists Find A 'Weak Spot' In HIV That May Pave The Way To A Vaccine
Monday May 16, 2016 @06:11PM Highly-Conductive Shark Jelly Could Inspire New Tech
Friday May 13, 2016 @11:02PM Scientists Hold A Secret Meeting To Consider Creating A Synthetic Human Genome
Thursday May 12, 2016 @05:04PM Scientists Find Gut Microbe That Survives Without Mitochondria
Monday May 09, 2016 @06:02AM Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight
Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:04PM Scientists Grow Two-Week-Old Human Embryos In Lab For The First Time
Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:36PM In Search Of A Healthy Gut, One Man Turned To An Extreme DIY Fecal Transplant
Monday May 02, 2016 @08:13PM Novel Model Illustrates The Finer Details Of Nuclear Fission
Saturday April 23, 2016 @09:26AM First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Aging?
Friday April 22, 2016 @09:13PM CERN Releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Into Open Access
Thursday April 14, 2016 @03:44PM Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels'
Monday April 11, 2016 @10:56PM Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations
Monday March 21, 2016 @12:53AM Scientists Propose Biodiversity Lab To Redeem Guantanamo Prison Camp
Saturday March 19, 2016 @10:15PM Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels
Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:41PM SeaWorld To End Orca Breeding Program
Friday March 04, 2016 @01:46PM DNA 'Knockouts' Reveal Genes Humans Don't Need
Sunday February 28, 2016 @05:11PM Biological Supercomputers Powered By ATP Could Be A Reality Some Day
Saturday February 27, 2016 @10:11AM Scientists Ponder the Prospect of Contagious Cancer
Friday February 19, 2016 @07:11PM Study: Mice Gain Weight In Cold Temperatures Due To Gut Changes
Tuesday February 16, 2016 @09:50PM New Study Shows Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Humans Like Us
Monday February 01, 2016 @02:16PM U.K. Researcher Receives Permission To Edit Genes In Human Embryos
Saturday January 09, 2016 @03:00PM Chemical Evolution of Self-Replicating Molecules Observed In a Lab
Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:40AM Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years
Friday October 30, 2015 @11:02PM Mother of All Apes May Have Been Surprisingly Small
Monday October 26, 2015 @12:57PM A Real-Life Space Botanist Comments On the Potato Garden In 'The Martian'
Tuesday October 20, 2015 @09:42AM Wildflowers Give Bees a Dose of Pesticides
Tuesday October 06, 2015 @08:59AM Study Finds Humans Are Worse Than Radiation For Chernobyl Animals
Sunday September 20, 2015 @03:15PM A Wikipedia-Style Tree of Life Emerges
Tuesday September 15, 2015 @11:10AM Damaged Spinal Cord "Rewires" Itself With Help of Electrical Stimulation
Tuesday September 08, 2015 @11:00AM Another Neurodegenerative Disease Linked To a Prion
Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:58AM Brain-Eating Amoeba Scoffs At Chlorine In Water Pipes
Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:29AM Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab
Friday August 14, 2015 @07:22PM Octopus Genome Sequenced
Sunday August 02, 2015 @11:14PM Researchers Find That Queen Bees Vaccinate Their Offspring
Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:06AM There Aren't a Trillion Different Smells After All
Tuesday July 07, 2015 @08:20AM Scientists Show Human Aging Rates Vary Widely
Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:20PM Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Criticizes Role of Women In Labs
Saturday June 06, 2015 @01:29AM Placenta Eating Offers No Benefit To Mom
Tuesday June 02, 2015 @11:59AM Scientists Discover Sawfish Escape Extinction Through "Virgin Births"