Dormancy is a sleep-like state of cells that protects them from genetic damage and thus prolongs their survival. This state is reversible and characterized by low metabolic activity and division rate. Researchers from the ...
Biotechnology
Jun 23, 2021
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Researchers from Skoltech and Saratov State University have designed a simple and easily reproducible labeling system for individual cells that enables researchers to track single cell behavior and migration for tasks requiring ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 17, 2021
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University of Idaho researchers partnered with other scientists from the United States and Australia to study the evolution of Tasmanian devils in response to a unique transmissible cancer.
Plants & Animals
May 26, 2021
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Like all living things, humans are the product of a complex evolutionary history. Our ancestors' environment and diets, and the limits of human biology, have led to adaptations that have improved our survival through natural ...
Evolution
May 20, 2021
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Alterations in the epigenetic programming of hatchery-raised steelhead trout could account for their reduced fertility, abnormal health and lower survival rates compared to wild fish, according to a new Washington State University ...
Ecology
May 18, 2021
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Spinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown meat cells, an advance that may accelerate the development ...
Other
Mar 31, 2021
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The immense diversity in the living world and how it came into being has always been a subject of human enquiry. After centuries of playing detective in search of the basis of the parities and disparities that we see among ...
Evolution
Mar 18, 2021
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QUT mathematicians from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers applied financial risk management theory to the study of biological population dynamics to better understand an emergent 'cellular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 7, 2021
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In otherwise energetic deserts at the bottom of the sea, researchers have found oases where microbes can harvest energy. Remarkably, the microbes first have to be buried under starving conditions for 80,000 years. An international ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 10, 2020
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Much like investors in the stock market, cell populations prepare for changes in the environment by spreading the risk. The tool box they use contains a repertoire of sensory receptors on the surface of individual cells. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2020
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