A groundbreaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons, helping to reduce human-elephant conflict for local farmers and boost income.

A study in Nature Communications shows how scientists can control cell division on demand outside of a living system. The work by researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation is a significant leap forward that can enhance our grasp of human biology and disease. 

In the largest predation event ever recorded, researchers observed capelin shoaling off the coast of Norway, where a swarm of cod overtook them, consuming over 10 million fish in a few hours. The team hopes to deploy their technique to monitor the large-scale dynamics among other species of fish and track vulnerable keystone species.

Glycans are chains of sugars that attach to cells through proteins or lipids, changing their chemical characteristics. Exactly how and why proteins and lipids are glycosylated, or modified with glycans after synthesis, remains largely unknown. This research describes a mechanism of self-regulation through the binding of specific glycans to a non-catalytic lectin domain of the glycosylation proteins GnT-IVa and GnT-IVb.

Wearable electronic devices are potential tools to monitor blood glucose levels (BGLs) among people with diabetes, but their limited size and power lead to noticeable measurement errors. In a recent study, researchers from Japan developed a screening technique that can filter out low-quality data in a preprocessing step, enhancing the accuracy of BGL estimations. Their findings could pave the way to convenient glucose monitoring using consumer electronics, eliminating the need for finger pricks.