News tagged with chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Expanded version of Phytozome.net released

An enhanced version of Phytozome.net, a web portal for comparative plant genomics geared to advance biofuel, food, feed, and fiber research, has been released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Biologists produce potential malarial vaccine from algae

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement that ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Optogenetics -- Combination switch turns neurons on and off

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flies that display courtship behaviour at the press of a button, worms made to wriggle by remote control: since the dawn of optogenetics, scientists can turn nerve cells on and off using pulses ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists genetically increase algae biomass by more than 50 percent

Research at Iowa State University has led to discovery of a genetic method that can increase biomass in algae by 50 to 80 percent.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

More than mere pond scum

(PhysOrg.com) -- Algae could soon become a valuable biofuel resource, according to research at the University of Arizona.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Could the ingestion of 'modified' starch be a new malaria vaccine strategy?

There is no efficient vaccine against malaria, although nasal and oral vaccination seems to be the most promising and suitable solution in countries where the parasite Plasmodium, which causes the disease, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Swimming microorganisms stir things up

Two separate research groups are reporting groundbreaking measurements of the fluid flow that surrounds freely swimming microorganisms. Experiments involving two common types of microbes reveal the ways that ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers use nanobiotechnology-manipulated light particles to accelerate algae growth

Scientists and engineers seek to meet three goals in the production of biofuels from non-edible sources such as microalgae: efficiency, economical production and ecological sustainability. Syracuse University's Radhakrishna ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Origins of multicellularity: All in the family

One of the most pivotal steps in evolution-the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms-may not have required as much retooling as commonly believed, found a globe-spanning collaboration of scientists ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lessons from the pond: Clues from green algae on the origin of males and females

A multicellular green alga, Volvox carteri, may have finally unlocked the secrets behind the evolution of different sexes. A team led by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has shown ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Light switches for nerve cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like a neurobiologist’s dream: a light-switch that allows nerve cells to be switched on and off at will. Three scientists have found just such a light switch and are now being honoured ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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