Pollination merely one production factor
Cause for celebration as Iberian lynx caught on camera in western Portugal
Anatomy determines how lizards attract partners and repel rivals
Cells like us stick together
Once upon a time all cells were solitary, going about the everyday business of life on their own.
Jun 10, 2013
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Researchers decipher an alternative mechanism of intracellular protein trafficking
Research, published on the cover of the journal Traffic, describes existing alternative mechanisms to the traditional export model of newly synthesized membrane and secretory proteins from the endoplasmic reticu ...
Jun 10, 2013
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Guppies and sexual conflict? It's a genital arms race
(Phys.org) —It's not always easy to tell if a fish is male or female: they look more or less the same. But there are exceptions, such as guppies and, as with humans, guppy genitalia varies in size across ...
Jun 03, 2013
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Whitebark pine trees: Is their future at risk?
How cells get a skeleton
The mechanism responsible for generating part of the skeletal support for the membrane in animal cells is not yet clearly understood. Now, Jean-François Joanny from the Physico Chemistry Curie Unit at the Curie Institute ...
Jun 10, 2013
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Pollinators easily enhanced by flowering agri-environment schemes
Agri-environment schemes aimed to promote biodiversity on farmland have positive effects on wild bees, hoverflies and butterflies. Effects on diversity and abundance were strongest when agri-environment schemes ...
Jun 10, 2013
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British butterfly desperate for warm weather this summer
When calculating cell-growth thermodynamics, reconsider using the Gibbs free energy equation
A forthcoming article in The Quarterly Review of Biology provides the basis for an argument against using the Gibbs free energy equation to accurately determine the thermodynamics of microbial growth.
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DNA gridlock: Cells undo glitches to prevent mutations
Roughly six feet of DNA are packed into every human cell, so it is not surprising that our genetic material occasionally folds into odd shapes such as hairpins, crosses and clover leafs. But these structures ...
Jun 03, 2013
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Plasma in a bag
Plastic bags coated by plasma at atmospheric pressure serve as a GMP laboratory for the cultivation of adherent cells. The plasma is used to modify the internal surface of the bag specifically, so that different ...
Jun 10, 2013
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Research shows river dredging reduced fish numbers, diversity
Great mystery of a plant defence pathway unravelled
(Phys.org) —Together with several partners, scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) have discovered that RLP-receptors located at the outside of plant cells and playing an important ...
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