2014
Researchers have learned how sidewinder snakes climb sandy slopes, and put that knowledge to work with a snake-like robot.
Researchers have sequenced the genomes and transcriptomes of five species of African cichlid fishes and uncovered a variety of features that enabled the fishes to thrive in new habitats and ecological niches within the Great Lakes of East Africa.
Pacific corals and fish can both smell a bad neighborhood, and use that ability to avoid settling in damaged reefs.
The evolution of the ribosome, a large molecular structure found in the cells of all species, has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a new study.
A study of 338 patients with coronary artery disease has identified a gene expression profile associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular death.
Co-evolution in species may reverse traditional predator-prey population cycles, creating the appearance that prey are eating the predators.
Researchers have shown that a process called DNA methylation can shield duplicate genes from being removed from the genome during natural selection. The redundant genes survive and are shaped by evolution over time, giving birth to new cellular funct
2013
A study of protein membranes could provide drug designers with a new target for anti-microbial compounds.
Future teams of subterranean robots could benefit from research into how ants move in confined spaces.
A new study has quantified the size holes made in bacteria by new antibacterial compounds.
2012
Dr. Joshua Weitz has been awarded a grant from the Program in Biological Oceanography on "Understanding the Effects of Complex Phage-Bacteria Infection Networks on Ocean Ecosystems".
researchers demonstrate how a new virus evolves, which sheds light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations.
2011
Study reveals bacteria-virus infection patterns exhibit nestedness.
Software tool extracts macroscopic vein structures from leaf images.
