This is a female monarch.
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High food stress may impact wing size and coloration -- both indicators of migratory success -- in monarch butterflies, according to results published April 2, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS...
Mice fed tryptophan develop immune cells that foster a tolerant gut.
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Immune cells patrol the gut to ensure that harmful microbes hidden in the food we eat don't sneak into the body. Cells that are capable...
From front to back: Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sue Tsai and graduate student Helen Luck contributed to the research identifying the immune system in the gut as a novel target for type 2 diabetes.
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A commonly-used drug to treat inflammatory...
This visual abstract depicts how drugging the gut microbiota with a nonlethal inhibitor that blocks production of the metabolite trimethylamine reduces the formation of atherosclerotic lesions and represents the first step toward treatment of cardiometabolic diseases by targeting the...
Dr. Leonidas Bleris (left), assistant professor of bioengineering at UT Dallas, and Richard Taplin Moore MS’11 helped create a new delivery system that may change gene therapy
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Bioengineers at The University of...
When normal and gene-altered mice ate the high-fat diet -- along with varying levels of doxycycline to induce GLP1 release -- mice expressing GLP1 (left) gained less weight gain while normal mice (right) grew fat.
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Scientists found that BPA can alter a turtle's reproductive system and disrupts sexual differentiation while it develops in the egg. Researchers are concerned findings could indicate harmful effects on the environment and to human health.
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Coral bleaching is caused by changes in ocean temperatures which harm Symbiodinium, leading corals to lose their symbiotic Symbiodinium and subsequently starve to death.
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Solutions to climate change, and particularly its effects on the ocean,...
This photo shows a new Mecysmauchenius new species, female in the field. This species uses power-amplified high-speed predatory strikes.
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Mecysmaucheniidae spiders, which live only in New Zealand and southern South America, don't look like much. They are drab...
This is an aardvark in the Kalahari desert in South Africa.
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The aardvark, a highlight for anyone on a game-viewing African safari, will become increasingly rare as the world warms and dries, and the consequences go well beyond...
Michael Shadlen, MD, PhD (above) and his team have made new progress in our understanding of the biology of conscious thought.
Credit: John Abbott
Columbia scientists have identified the brain's 'aha!' moment -- that flash in time when you suddenly become...
