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Although various image-based central position estimation (termed “centroid fitting”) methods such as 2D Gaussian fitting methods have been commonly used in single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) to precisely determine the location of each fluorophore, it is still a challenge to improve…
Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Cancer is relentless and resilient. When a drug blocks a cancer cell’s main survival pathway, the cell avoids the obstacle by taking different pathways or detours to save itself. This tactic is called “developing resistance,”…
A team of neuroscientists from Göttingen and Tehran shows how our brain combines visual features to
There are more different kinds of beetle than just about any other kind of animal–scientists have described about 5,800 different species of mammals, compared with nearly 400,000 species of beetles. Of those 400,000 kinds of beetles, more than 64,000 species…
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) of Japan hosted the 2019 Triennial Conference of HFSPO Members (TCHM) to…
Brazilian researchers found the cause of neurological complications observed in adults patients infe
EAST LANSING, Mich – The United States grew more than a million acres of potatoes in 2017, making the number one vegetable crop in the country a tuber. But potatoes are not the only tubers. Jerusalem artichoke, potato bean and…
Success in observing how memory is consolidated in brain during sleep
Infection with parasitic helminths can reduce the susceptibility of T-cells to HIV-1 infection, according to a study published September 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Esther de Jong of the University of Amsterdam and William Paxton of the…
The key step in stomata development in plants has been discovered; genes that make stomata and enfor
Impact surveys critical to tracking bacterial disease that causes blindness
Norwegian researcher awarded European Research Council grant to explore the ocean’s many woes
In the wet-dry topics of Australia, drinking water in remote communities is often sourced from groundwater bores. The geochemistry of that groundwater impacts the occurrence of opportunistic pathogens in the drinking water supply, researchers now report in PLOS Neglected Tropical…
KANSAS CITY, MO–Small-cell clones in proliferating epithelia – tissues that line all body surfaces – organize very differently than their normal-sized counterparts, according to a recent study from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Published online September 5, 2019, in…
It is hard to get people excited about research software says Eliza Grames, a PhD candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology. Yet, the software she has developed is exciting and to understand why, it is important to put yourself into…
A ravening predator in the Canary laurel forests
UH evolutionary biologist publishes findings on sex determinates of house flies
Award recognizes Lee’s work studying underlying mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases
When Kīlauea Volcano erupted in 2018, it injected millions of cubic feet of molten lava into the nutrient-poor waters off the Big Island of Hawai’i. The lava-impacted seawater contained high concentrations of nutrients that stimulated phytoplankton growth, resulting in an…
SILVER SPRING, Md. – Scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research joined a network of African scientists, the Plasmodium Diversity Network Africa, and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to publish a groundbreaking study about the genetic diversity of the…
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania provide a molecular map of every cell in a developin
Changes to the environmental conditions that underpin the reproductive success of some corals may be causing their highly synchronized mass-spawning strategy to break down, a new study finds. This desynchronization – a previously unnoticed threat – could drive aging coral…
Results from a rapid-response oceanographic expedition in the North Pacific reveal a surprise about how lava from the K?lauea Volcano, which erupted on the island of Hawai’i during the summer of 2018, triggered a vast phytoplankton bloom. The study –…
Synchronized coral spawning has become erratic, endangering the long-term survival of coral species,
Researchers have successfully sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan civilization, also called the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The DNA, which belongs to an individual who lived four to five millennia ago, suggests that modern people in…
Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to common antibiotics. Often, resistance is mediated by resistance genes, which can simply jump from one bacterial population to the next. It’s a common assumption that the resistance genes spread primarily when antibiotics are used,…
Columbia University will award the 2019 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to three scientists: Lewis C. Cantley, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA, David M. Sabatini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Howard Hughes…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — An overwhelming scientific consensus affirms that for thousands of species across the globe, climate change is an immediate and existential threat. For the loggerhead turtle, whose vast range extends from the chilly shores of Newfoundland to the…
A recent human study published in The FASEB Journal discovered the presence of fungal communities in the fetal gut. The study marks the first of its kind to observe fungal DNA in this developmental setting. To conduct the experiment, researchers…
Scientists are batting a thousand in a project to reconstruct the mouse brain’s wiring diagram. Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have now carefully unraveled a tangle of more than 1,000 neurons, tracing each cell’s branching…
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have, together with colleagues from Aalto University in Finland, developed a new method for creating images of molecules in cells or tissue samples. The method is based on the use of DNA snippets and…
The dinosaur, whose nearly complete skeleton was unearthed from 72 million year old marine deposits in Mukawa Town in northern Japan, belongs to a new genus and species of a herbivorous hadrosaurid dinosaur, according to the study published in Scientific…
Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience uncovered a diverse palette of inhi
The evolutionary pressure to pass on DNA can produce behavior that otherwise makes no sense in a struggle to survive. Rams bash heads in fights over females; peacocks grow elaborate tail feathers that attract mates and predators alike. Sexual selection…
A new vaccine developed by Griffith University Institute for Glycomics researchers has the potential to treat and prevent toxic shock caused by invasive streptococcal disease, which kills more than 160,000 people every year. “Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome is an acute…
Two-pronged approach stymies AML escape plan, could have applications to many cancers
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have made an important advance toward understanding why certain cells in the nervous system are prone to breaking down and dying, which is what happens in patients with ALS and other neurodegenerative…
Taxes that incentivize environmentally friendly practices could promote green development
Hearing casual chatter of birds after predator call reassures squirrels to come off high alert
A new study provides an updated picture of the prevalence of the sheep and goat plague virus (PPRV), a widespread and often fatal disease that threatens 80 percent of the world’s sheep and goats, in northern Tanzania. According to the…
Professor studies the impact of cannabinoids on HIV infection and inflammation
Scientists discover the secret behind some protein transporters’ superiority
Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso’s School of Pharmacy have been awarded $1.8 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the effects of thirdhand smoke…
Institute of Evolutionary Biology press release
Many people have experienced stressful situations that trigger a particular mood and also change certain feelings toward food. An international team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine looked into the possibility of crosstalk between eating and mood and…
ST. LOUIS, MO, September 4, 2019 – Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are higher than at any point in the past 800,000 years and in 2017, the global average amount of CO2 hit a new record: 405 parts per million, according…
Microbes are well-known among biologists as master engineers of useful small molecules, and there are many tricks of their trade. When researchers at the University of Illinois took a closer look at how a known microbe makes a known so-called…
Findings in Journal of Nutrition show positive outcomes for cancer and other diseases in women
Three new viruses — including one from a group of viruses never before shown to infect fish — have
Morphology of the denisovan phalanx closer to modern humans than to Neanderthals
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