Medicine and Life Sciences - Life Sciences
Temperature influences how badly pesticides affect bees' behaviour, suggesting uncertain impacts under climate change, according to a new study. The findings indicate that future extreme temperature events under climate change could increase the impact of pesticides on bee populations and their pollination services.
Biological fluids are made up of hundreds or thousands of different proteins (represented by space filling models above) that evolved to work together efficiently but flexibly. UC Berkeley polymer scientists are trying to create artificial fluids composed of random heteropolymers (threads inside spheres) with much less complexity, but which mimic many of the properties of the natural proteins (right), such as stabilizing fragile molecular markers.
A collaborative study between researchers at Simon Fraser University and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has found that high logging intensity in the Interior watersheds of British Columbia is associated with warmer stream temperatures in salmon-bearing streams, potentially contributing to increased heat stress in salmon.
A condition called CD3 delta SCID is caused by a mutation in the CD3D gene, which prevents the production of the CD3 delta protein that is needed for the normal development of T cells from blood stem cells.
Some people have a genetic predisposition to being an 'evening person' and new research led by University of Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science , published in the journal Sleep, finds this protects regular night shift workers against sleep penalties.
Yale researchers uncovered a novel mechanism by which -good- bacteria colonize the gut. The finding could help spur the development of new probiotic therapies. The microbes that inhabit the gut are critical for human health, and understanding the factors that encourage the growth of beneficial bacterial species - known as -good- bacteria - in the gut may enable medical interventions that promote gut and overall human health.
West African chimpanzees in Guinea are threatened by mining. Using a novel genetic approach, researchers together with an international team have collected information on the population size and community structure of the threatened species. These data provide an important basis for assessing the impact of mining
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PROFESSEUR ASSOCIE HES – PROFESSEURE ASSOCIEE HES dans le domaine de la bio-ingénierie HES-SO Genève, Campus Biotech, 9 chemin des mines, 1202 Genève HEPIA, 4 rue de la Prairie, 1202 Genève
Postdoctoral Researcher (gn*) Biology / Biotechnology / Biochemistry Universitätsklinikum Münster
Tenure-Track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in the DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY University of Geneva
PhD candidate | School for Mental Health and Neuroscience | 1.0 FTE | 4 years Maastricht University
Research Assistant/PhD Candidate in stem cell biology at NNF Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW University of Copenhagen
Técnico de Laboratorio para el Grupo de Carcinogénesis Epitelial ( TECAREPI24) National Center for Oncological Research, Madrid
Staff Associate I (Cartilage Biology & Regenerative Medicine Lab) Columbia University
Assistant Professor of Genetic Counseling in Obstetrics and Gynecology - Clinical Genetics Columbia University
Links - Life Sciences
- BioAlps - The life science cluster of Western Switzerland
- Swiss Biotech Association
- Philip Morris International
- Biotechnology Institute Thurgau
- German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ)
- Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB)
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
- Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB)
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN)
- Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR)
- Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig - Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity (ZFMK)
- Bayer AG
- BioNTech SE
- Bundeswehr Institute of Radiobiology
- Defence Science Institute for Protection Technologies - NBC Protection (WIS)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL
- VectorBuilder
- Papiliorama
- Vogelwarte, Swiss Ornithological Institute
New European research project, involving UPF, to investigate the effects of music on sleep
Event: New UBC-led national research hub to accelerate Canada's vaccine and therapeutics production

$5 million gift from Nancy and Howard Marks endows chair in women's health research at UCLA
