UBC Researchers Discover Key to Immune Cell’s ‘internal Guidance’ System

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a host. The discovery of the role played by the molecule CD74 could...

Do Bacteria Age? Biologists Discover the Answer Follows Simple Economics

When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful population of bacteria. Bacteria, in other words,...

New Curation Tool a Boon for Genetic Biologists

With the BeeSpace Navigator, University of Illinois researchers have created both a curation tool for genetic biologists and a new approach to searching for information. The project was a collaboration between researchers at the Institute for Genomic...

California Academy of Sciences Becomes the First Aquarium in U.S. to Breed Dwarf Cuttlefish

Anchored to an algae-covered rock in a 120-gallon tank at the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium, a cluster of inky-colored cuttlefish eggs is beginning to swell—evidence of success for the Academy’s new captive breeding...