The most common bat in the United States, the big brown bat, boasts an unusually long lifespan of up to 19 years. A new study led by University of Maryland researchers identifies one of the secrets to this bat's exceptional ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2022
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Have you ever noticed that the time you take your daily caffeine hit can change how it affects you?
Plants & Animals
Jul 28, 2022
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The biological clock is present in almost all cells of an organism. As more and more evidence emerges that clocks in certain organs could be out of sync, there is a need to investigate and reset these clocks locally. Scientists ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 26, 2021
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The biological clock of a popular food crop controls close to three-quarters of its genes, according to research from Dartmouth College.
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2020
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Researchers led by Kyoto University have reconstituted the human segmentation clock, a key focus of embryonic development research, using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 1, 2020
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Scientists from the University of Bristol have uncovered the age-old mystery of why marimo algae balls sink at night and float during the day.
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2018
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Almost all organisms have an internal biological clock that synchronizes their behavior with the environment in which they live. Endogenous biological clocks follow the major cyclical rhythms: the solar-influenced 24-hour ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 20, 2018
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Charissa de Bekker, Ph.D., came to UCF earlier this year to continue her research on a fungal parasite that infects ants, hijacks their brains and controls their behavior to spread its fungal spores - a phenomenon that's ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2017
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Scientists are closer to unraveling the long-standing mystery of how tiny glass eel larvae, which begin their lives as hatchlings in the Sargasso Sea, know when and where to "hop off" the Gulf Stream toward European coastlines ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 12, 2017
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A team of Dutch and German researchers has discovered the operation of one of the oldest biological clocks in the world, which is crucial for life on earth as we know it. The researchers applied a new combination of cutting-edge ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 16, 2017
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