EurekAlert! News by Subject: Biology - Home

Biology

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 18-Jun-2026 10:16 ET (18-Jun-2026 14:16 GMT/UTC)

Sweeping product analysis reveals path to more effective probiotic supplements

University of Virginia Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists analyzed more than 350 over-the-counter probiotics sold at the three largest pharmacy chains in the United States. Here's what they found.

AI speed up the use of optical tweezers

University of Gothenburg
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By teaching an AI to use optical tweezers, researchers from the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, have sped up the analysis of life’s smallest components. The AI platform captures particles, takes measurements and loads new samples, all without human intervention.

Journal: Nature Methods

Climate change is now causing more local extinction in temperate regions than the tropics, surprising study shows

University of Arizona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A global study of more than 5,100 species of plants and animals challenges long-held assumptions about which species are most threatened by climate change. Almost half the species included in the study went locally extinct at the warmest part of the region where they were previously found.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), DST–INSPIRE Faculty Award

AI unlocks the secrets of viruses: Birth of large protein structures for vaccine delivery

Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

- Prof. Sangmin Lee of POSTECH publishes findings in Nature, the world's most prestigious academic journal, through joint research with Prof. David Baker of the University of Washington, Nobel Prize laureate.

- Viral structural principles reproduced using AI, with promising applications as next-generation drug delivery systems.

Journal: Nature

New trial aims to extend immune system lifespan

University College London
Business Announcement

A first-in-human clinical trial of an immune rejuvenation therapy designed to restore the function of worn-out T cells is expected to begin later this year, building on research led by UCL scientists into the mechanisms of immune ageing.

Scientists just found something weird inside moss

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UC Riverside researchers present evidence, that has not been previously documented, that desert mosses host fungi living inside their tissues.

Journal: New Phytologist

Like humans, great apes think differently from each other

Association for Psychological Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study assesses how cognitive skills of great apes vary between individuals.

Journal: Psychological Science

Ebola virus hides in the central nervous system, according to new research led by microbiologists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

International team uses cerebral organoids to better understand virus biology

Journal: Nature Microbiology

Machine-learning how to overcome antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With tens of millions of annual cases, gonorrhea is the second most frequently reported sexually transmitted infection (STI). Alone in the U.S., over 600,000 cases are reported each year. If left untreated, gonorrhea can result in a plethora of serious health issues. The major challenge in more effectively controlling the disease lies in the ability of the responsible pathogen to rapidly develop resistance against newly available antibiotics.

Now, a new study published in Science Translational Medicine led by Wyss Institute Core Faculty member James Collins, Ph.D. at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, MIT, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard offers an exciting new AI-enabled strategy to identify new chemical compounds that could be further developed into antibiotic therapies for N. gonorrhoeae.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine

1
2
3