News tagged with insect cells

Dutch PhD develops fast method for preparing flu vaccine

(PhysOrg.com) -- A shortage of flu vaccines may soon become a thing of the past. Researcher Manon Cox has designed an alternative process for producing large quantities of safe and effective vaccines at twice to four times ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover how a brain hormone controls insect metamorphosis

A team of University of Minnesota researchers have discovered how PTTH, a hormone produced by the brain, controls the metamorphosis of juvenile insects into adults.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cells in developing tissue consider their history of signaling exposure to determine location

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have proposed a novel model that differs from a widely held hypothesis about the mechanisms by which developing animals pattern their tissues and structures.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dogs, maybe not, but old genes can learn new tricks

A popular view among evolutionary biologists that fundamental genes do not acquire new functions was challenged this week by a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Biology / Evolution

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Gene exchange common among sex-manipulating bacteria

Certain bacteria have learned to manipulate the proportion of females and males in insect populations. Now Uppsala University researchers have mapped the entire genome of a bacterium that infects a close relative of the fruit ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Novel electric signals in plants

Using ion-selective micro-electrodes electrical signals in plants moving from leaf to leaf could be measured. The speed of the signals spreading as voltage changes over cell membranes ranged from 5 to 10 cm ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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