Study confirms that the symbiosis between fungi and algae that dissolves rocks and was widely distributed across Earth 410 million years ago helped form the first soils.

UVic research team discovers association between midlife insulin levels and menopause symptoms.

Called "CytoTape", University of Michigan researchers developed a flexible thread-like intracellular protein fiber, designed with the help of artificial intelligence, to record cellular processes in vivo.

A new international study published in Nature has identified albumin, the most abundant protein in human blood, as a powerful and previously unrecognized defense against mucormycosis, a rare but often fatal fungal infection. The research was led by George Chamilos, MD and his laboratory at the University of Crete and Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, with critical contributions from a Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation team lead by Professor Ashraf Ibrahim, PhD.

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have completed a spaceflight biology investigation aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that reveals how microgravity fundamentally alters microbial metabolism, limiting the efficiency of biological manufacturing processes critical to future long-duration space missions. The findings were recently published in the journal npj Microgravity.

 

 

Scientists at MDI Biological Laboratory use the fast-aging African turquoise killifish to uncover how a widely prescribed class of drugs helps protect the aging kidney. The study published by Kidney International establishes the fish as a powerful model for kidney aging and shows that SGLT2 inhibitors preserve capillaries, maintain cellular energy balance, and reduce inflammatory changes during aging—offering a mechanistic basis for the vascular-protective effects of SGLT2 inhibition during renal aging.

Skeletal muscle stem cells in hibernating Syrian hamsters preserve their ability to function by suppressing their activation during the hibernation period, a research team led by Hiroshima University has shown. This insight may lead to a broader understanding of the maintenance of muscle tissue under prolonged low temperature conditions and may eventually lead to therapeutic applications.