Brain Awareness Week 2020: Cognitive function and commercial video games
This year, Brain Awareness Week falls between 16th and 22nd March. The campaign, organised by the Dana Foundation, aims to foster public enthusiasm… Read more »
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Electrocuting mosquitoes: a new hope for monitoring dengue vectors?
The Mosquito Electrocuting Trap (MET) for collection of mosquito populations that transmit dengue virus was recently tested for the first time.… Read more »
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Human Pancreas Organoids: A step closer to understanding biology & treating disease
Authors of this recent paper published in BMC Developmental Biology, present a new way of studying what goes on within the… Read more »
Honey baits for arbovirus surveillance
Authors of a recent study evaluated which mosquito trap is best to use in combination with honey-baited FTA filter paper cards as… Read more »
MinION: Democratising biodiversity research by misusing a portable long-read sequencer for short-read barcoding
Many animal species on Earth are awaiting discovery and description, but finding all these unknown species is a monumental task.… Read more »
A groovy kind of protein?
In the first of a series of blog posts on structural biology, we present research featured recently in BMC Molecular and Cell… Read more »
Echo chambers and polarization may not be the same phenomenon in social media
Existence of echo chambers indicates a polarized state of the society concerning beliefs regarding a given topic. However,… Read more »
The new science of prebunking: how to inoculate against the spread of misinformation
The spread of fake news is a growing problem, particularly online, with serious consequences in the real world. In written… Read more »
Complex networks can shed light on the hidden patterns that connect terrorist actors
Network science is constantly proving to be an effective framework to study and analyse social phenomena. Its strengths can be… Read more »
Making it cheaper to track genetically-modified mosquito releases
Mass-rearing and mass-releasing sterile insects is a technique to eliminate harmful insects or to transform a species so that it… Read more »