Treatment with a genome editing agent can preserve sound-detecting bristles in the inner ear of mice with genetic deafness (white box, left). Without the treatment, these bristles disappear (white box, right).
Credit: Gao et al. /Nature 2017
Using molecular scissors wrapped...
This image depicts a trap nest containing a mason wasp (Antherhynchium flavomarginatum) pupa, left; and a mason wasp larva, right, that has been parasitized by the larva of the wasp parasitoid Lycogaster violaceipennis.
Credit: Felix Fornoff, University of Freiburg
Like a...
Street flooding in Miami (stock image).
Credit: © light_magic / Fotolia
The East Coast of the United States is threatened by more frequent flooding in the future. This is shown by a recent study by the Universities of Bonn, South Florida,...
The key to the willow warblers' differing migration patterns probably lies in their genes.
Credit: Max Lundberg
The genetic make-up of a willow warbler determines where it will migrate when winter comes. Studies of willow warblers in Sweden, Finland and the...
Earth has a new lightning capital, according to a recent study using observations from the Lightning Imaging Sensor onboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission.
Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela earned the top spot receiving an average rate of about 233 flashes...
Arrival of a density current made visible by the soil particles it lifts as it progresses, in Hombori, Mali. This phenomenon, which is of a convective nature, is known as a haboob. Photograph taken during the AMMA (African Monsoon...
Molecular model (stock image).
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Protein assemblies, designed and built from scratch to carry molecular cargo, are advancing both synthetic life research and engineering efforts for targeted drug delivery.
Scientists have succeeded in developing the...
Helobdella robusta, a tiny freshwater leech that attacks and kills snails.
Credit: Photo by Ajna S. Rievra/UC Berkeley
Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured the hearts of two University of California, Berkeley, scientists who are part of a team...
After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime.
Credit: © Henri-Jacques Delecluse/DKFZ
After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime, usually...
AWARE instruments at the WAIS Divide field camp in central West Antarctica in December 2015 under a spectacular optical display ("sun dog") due to atmospheric ice crystals.
Credit: Colin Jenkinson, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
An area of West Antarctica more than...
One of the cichlid fish from Guatemala, Thorichthys meeki, collected by LSU Curator of Ichthyology Prosanta Chakrabarty for the study that refuted the date in which the Isthmus of Panama was formed.
Credit: Courtesy of Prosanta Chakrabarty, LSU
A long-standing fact...
