Unpacking the history of how Earth feeds life, and life changes Earth
At a fleeting glance, the study of life – biology – seems very separate from that of rocks, or geology.
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2018
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News tagged with living organisms
When a fish becomes fluid
Zebrafish aren't just surrounded by liquid, but turn liquid—in part—during their development. As the zebrafish embryo develops from a ball of cells to a fully-formed fish, a region of the embryo switches its phase from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 17, 2018
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Coral larvae found to prefer a noisy environment
A team of researchers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has found that coral larvae prefer to set up a new home in a place noisy with other living organisms over a barren soundless site. In their paper published ...
Over one third of Indonesia's coral reefs in bad state, study finds
More than a third of Indonesia's coral reefs are in bad condition, scientists said Tuesday, raising concerns about the future of the archipelago's vast marine ecosystem.
Environment
Nov 28, 2018
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Scientists uncover the mechanism of fungal luminescence and create luminescent yeasts
Russian scientists with colleagues from the U.K., Spain, Brazil, Japan and Austria have fully described the mechanism of fungal luminescence. They report that fungi utilize only four key enzymes to produce light and that ...
Biochemistry
Nov 27, 2018
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Tropical fish adapt to cold temperatures in coordination with their microbiome
Scientists have discovered that tropical fish can control their gut microbes to better survive extremes of temperature, a study in eLife reveals.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 20, 2018
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Micropumps as a platform for understanding chemically propelled micromotors
The development of self-propelled micro- and nanomachines able to emulate the intricate inner workings of the human body and/or the natural environment has captured the imagination of an ever expanding research community ...
Materials Science
Nov 8, 2018
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Ancestor of all life on Earth evolved earlier than we thought, according to our new timescale
Science may have enabled us to travel in space and trace the history of the entire universe, but it has not yet been able to answer exactly how and when life first arose on our planet. Traditionally, scientists have used ...
Evolution
Aug 21, 2018
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A novel synthetic antibody enables conditional 'protein knockdown' in vertebrates
The research groups led by Dr. Jörg Mansfeld of the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC) and Dr. Caren Norden of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) have developed a novel ...
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2018
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Unlocking mystery of protein function
What makes the body of a person or any other organism work can for the most part be summed up in a word: proteins.
Biochemistry
Nov 27, 2017
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