NAC transcription factors (TFs) are involved in regulating complex signaling networks that respond to various abiotic stresses. However, it is unknown whether NAC TFs can negatively regulate fruit cold tolerance by regulating ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 10, 2022
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Flame retardants are added to a variety of products to prevent or slow the spread of fire. They have been added to many consumer and industrial products, including building materials, plastics, polyurethane-based foams in ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2022
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A research team lead by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany, has now made substantial progress in understanding how gut bacteria succeed in their human hosts on a molecular level. They ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 28, 2022
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UT Southwestern researchers have discovered a molecular pathway that allows cells to sense when their lipid supplies become depleted, prompting a flurry of activity that prevents starvation. The findings, reported in Nature, ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 18, 2022
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Mitochondria release chemical energy and influence metabolic pathways that keep our cells and tissues healthy. Damage to these multifunctional powerhouses promotes cell death and disease.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 20, 2022
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How does a cell "decide" what type of cell to become? The question of "cell fate" has been explored for decades now, especially in the context of stem cell biology, but there are still gaps in our understanding. For example, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2022
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is an anthropogenic chemical used as a raw material for plastics such as polycarbonate and epoxy resins, and for the inner coating of canned foods. BPA has been detected in human specimens, including fetuses. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2022
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The Sinocyclocheilus represents a rare freshwater teleost genus endemic to China. With widespread drying associated with the aridification of China during the late Miocene and Pliocene, Sinocyclocheilus began to seek refuge ...
Evolution
Mar 21, 2022
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In humans and animals, fat cells produce and store fat in special organelles, which are specialized subunits within the cell, called lipid droplets. The lipid droplets make up the largest part of the volume of these fat cells, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 10, 2021
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Researchers of Ehime University and the University of Helsinki measured hepatic organohalogen (OHC) concentrations and gene expression profiles in Atlantic salmon collected from three areas in the Baltic Sea. The results ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2020
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