Athanasia Tzika, her PhD student Asier Ullate and their colleague Frank Chan (FML of the Max Planck Society, Tubingen, Germany) publish a step-by-step guide for de-novo assembly of a high-quality reptilian genome
Biologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have succeeded in establishing a water quality index based solely on the DNA sequences of the diatoms present in the samples, without needing to identify each species visually.
Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics report in the journal Nature that a southwestern European lizard slowly acquires its intricate adult skin colour by changing the colour of individual skin scales using an esoteric computational system invented in 1948 by another mathematician: John von Neumann.
Nagoshi's lab study in fruit flies reveals how signals from the biological clock are transmitted to brain circuits to regulate wakefulness throughout the day.
Researchers have developed a large-scale soft robotic arm inspired by the African elephant trunk. The study, co-authored by Michel Milinkovitch, demonstrates how principles derived from elephant biomechanics can help design more adaptable robotic systems.