Show HN: Grimoire for Biology(grimoire.bio)
9 points by levmiseri | 2 comments
Grimoire.bio is a web app where users ask biology questions and browse 3D-rendered bio objects, concepts, and guides.
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15 stories tagged biology, newest first.
The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)(jsomers.net)
390 points by jsomers | 123 comments
An essay by James Somers and Edwin Morris explaining how a single E. coli cell forages for nutrients through chemotaxis.
'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth(404media.co)
259 points by gumby | 148 comments
A 404 Media article about Jonathan, a tortoise believed to be the oldest living land animal, and what he might reveal about longevity and aging.
What's Earth's dominant species by mass?(signoregalilei.com)
258 points by surprisetalk | 192 comments
A blog post on the Signore Galilei site exploring which species makes up the largest share of Earth's biomass.
On building a worm detector(bencology.bearblog.dev)
30 points by surprisetalk | 6 comments
A blog post on bencology.bearblog.dev about building a detector to map individual and collective worm movements; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers(erictopol.substack.com)
359 points by bookofjoe | 169 comments
Eric Topol's Ground Truths Substack post discussing new Nature and Cell papers proposing that loss of cell identity drives human aging, as measured by epigenetic clocks.
Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)
112 points by pseudolus | 49 comments
Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats(anthropic.com)
740 points by raahelb | 740 comments
Anthropic news post announcing that Claude helped discover a novel enzyme system featuring CRISPR-like repeats.
Aging may be a program, not a breakdown(quantamagazine.org)
33 points by elo2000 | 36 comments
Quanta Magazine Q&A with Junyue Cao on single-cell studies of mouse cells suggesting aging is a programmed remodeling of cell populations rather than random wear.
Glacier Mice(en.wikipedia.org)
320 points by ostacke | 65 comments
Wikipedia article on glacier mice, colonies of moss balls found on glaciers that host small invertebrates like tardigrades and springtails.
Size of Life(neal.fun)
2521 points by eatonphil | 277 comments
An interactive Neal.fun page comparing the sizes of living things, from tiny organisms to the largest creatures.
Endometriosis is an interesting disease(owlposting.com)
371 points by crescit_eundo | 249 comments
A long primer essay on the Owl Posting Substack by Abhishaike Mahajan explaining why endometriosis is a scientifically interesting disease.
Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)(subanima.org)
320 points by ohjeez | 225 comments
A SubAnima article explaining at several levels of explanation why honeybees die after stinging, framed around Feynman's point about 'why' questions.
'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system(sciencealert.com)
393 points by unkeen | 120 comments
ScienceAlert article reporting the discovery of 'obelisks', a new class of viroid-like RNA elements found in bacteria of the human digestive system.
Biological Miracle – Wood Frog(nps.gov)
468 points by thunderbong | 125 comments
National Park Service page for Gates of the Arctic describing the wood frog's ability to survive being frozen during winter.