Viruses are not exactly alive...and yet they are able to collaborate. Some viruses will grab another virus by the neck so that they can work together to infect their hosts.
A breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place – biotechnology has been progressing at stunning speed, giving us the tools to eventually gain control over biology. On the one hand solving the deadliest diseases while also creating viruses more dangerous than nuclear bombs, able to devastate humanity....
Any #biology or #ecology folks know what this might be? We accidentally caught the poor guy when we were taking a grab sample of local pond water to run for heavy metal analysis.
Are you doing cell biology or biomedical research? Light microscopy-based imaging? If a facility for (multiplexed) imaging would pop up in your department, what would be your expectations and wishes for it? If you (would) run one, what is crucial?
I’ve applied for a (multiplexed) imaging facility manager job and would like to collect a few use scenarios (think tools, training, data analysis) to prepare for the interview. #CellBiology#Microscopy#Imaging#Biology#LightMicroscopy#Science
For various safety reasons, storks don’t deliver human babies, but they’re remarkable migrators. European populations, for instance, migrate to sub-Saharan Africa during the winter months, covering thousands of kilometers. #birds#biology#wildlife#CC#photography#nature#ecology#humor
Since I am playing around with the #microscope and got bitten by a #tick today I just had to investigate further. If you ever wondered what's in the face of a tick (called the hypostome) and getting under your skin, here my picture I took today.
The pattern of lines and whorls on each human fingerprint is unduplicated by any other finger, right? A team of researchers is casting some doubt on that long-held belief. Science Alert has more: https://flip.it/iTAS_T #Science#Humans#Fingerprints#Biology
So the below write-up popped up on r/aliens. By the time I got to it, the user had already deleted their account, and apparently it had been shadowbanned. As such, to preserve the content free of possible censorship, I'm reposting here in the Fediverse. Please note that I am not the author of the below content, nor do I make any...
#DogWalkingGeology this cold-water carbonate beach sediment on Eilean Dubh na Ciste would make a fabulous limestone given the right geological chances (very slim alas 😁). Lots of maerl (calcareous algae), crab claws, cowries, periwinkles,limpets, echinoid plates, and many more 😊 #Mull#Geology#Biology#sedimentology
An international group of scientists has been studying a group of microorganisms called Asgard archaea for several years. Their research indicates that these distinct organisms are the origin of all complex life forms that populate our world today. The first life forms that evolved on Earth were
This weekend is the return of an asteroid sample NASA collected about 200 million miles away in 2020. Getting the 8 ounces or so of asteroid rock will be historic, if all goes as planned…and the stress is giving the lead scientist strange, vivid dreams….
Now, in a paper published today in Nature Communications, Nanglu and his co-authors report that the exquisitely-preserved 500-million-year-old fossil is a dead ringer for some tunicates today, with two siphons to filter organic particles from the water and complex musculature controlling the siphons. “It looks like a tunicate...
Articulate, informative article about the academic #research process. Katalin Karikó, crucial contributor to the creation of #mRNA#vaccines, went though the same ordeal as Barbara McClintock & Rosalind Franklin. At least Karikó & McClintock got Nobels, if begrudgingly & late. Franklin only had her reputation besmirched until very recently.
English naturalist, geologist and biologist Charles Darwin was born #OTD in 1809. Darwin's book introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. via @wikipedia
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter XIV: "Recapitulation and Conclusion", page 489-90
~Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)
The Most Dangerous Weapon is NOT Nuclear (www.youtube.com)
A breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place – biotechnology has been progressing at stunning speed, giving us the tools to eventually gain control over biology. On the one hand solving the deadliest diseases while also creating viruses more dangerous than nuclear bombs, able to devastate humanity....
Molecular biologist claims to have worked on alien DNA at the Battelle National Biodefense Institute, posts incredibly detailed breakdown of their work on r/aliens, then disappears
So the below write-up popped up on r/aliens. By the time I got to it, the user had already deleted their account, and apparently it had been shadowbanned. As such, to preserve the content free of possible censorship, I'm reposting here in the Fediverse. Please note that I am not the author of the below content, nor do I make any...
Mysterious Microorganisms Unveiled as Key to the Origin of Complex Life (scitechdaily.com)
An international group of scientists has been studying a group of microorganisms called Asgard archaea for several years. Their research indicates that these distinct organisms are the origin of all complex life forms that populate our world today. The first life forms that evolved on Earth were
Half-billion-year-old sea squirt could push back origins of vertebrates, including humans (www.science.org)
Now, in a paper published today in Nature Communications, Nanglu and his co-authors report that the exquisitely-preserved 500-million-year-old fossil is a dead ringer for some tunicates today, with two siphons to filter organic particles from the water and complex musculature controlling the siphons. “It looks like a tunicate...