A tiny cattle tick is causing huge economic damage to farmers and ranchers around the world. A University of Nevada, Reno researcher who pioneered tick research to help reduce the …
Credit: cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.039 A new German study focuses on a component of the human gut microbiota that has been little studied so far. Plasmids are small extrachromosomal genetic …
New research led by Qingyun Liu, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Genetics at UNC, has discovered a genetic trait called “transcriptional plasticity” that plays a key role in …
Color composite image of the star forming region of IRAS 05168+3634, combining data from WISE 12 m (blue), Herschel 160 m (green) and Herschel 500 m (red). Image source: Azatyan …
New technology could allow genetic scientists to identify antibiotic resistance genes and help doctors choose better treatments for genetic diseases Genomic scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount …
Researchers may have solved the mystery of why a distant galaxy surrounded by an unusually perfect “Einstein ring” is denser than it should be: The giant galaxy has been discovered …
A team of physicists from the University of Washington and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) appears to have discovered a new, controllable change in superconductivity in a strange crystal-like …
Single physical qubits, such as rubidium atoms, are notoriously fragile and susceptible to disturbances from interactions with their environment. To minimize errors, the researchers entangled atoms together to form a …
Image of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft in February 2022. The black spot is the shadow of the moon Ganymede. These colorful patterns are formed by clouds at different …
Kaveri Institute of Cosmic Physics and Mathematics, University of Tokyo Figure 1: Image obtained by observing the large-scale structure of the universe. The numerous objects shown in yellow to red …