News tagged with mitochondrial

Lice genomes: Pieces of a new puzzle

Parents and school nurses take note. Lice are a familiar nuisance around the world and vectors of serious diseases, such as epidemic typhus, in developing regions. New research indicates that lice may actually ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New clues about mitochondrial 'growth spurts'

Mitochondria are restless, continually merging and splitting. But contrary to conventional wisdom, the size of these organelles depends on more than fusion and fission, as Berman et al. show. Mitochondrial ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New finding about the bane of parents' lives -- head lice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Head lice are a challenge for parents of primary-school aged children all around the world, including Australia.

Biology /

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Great speciators' explained: It's intrinsic

New molecular research shows that birds within the family Zosteropidae—named white eyes for the feathers that frame their eyes—form new species at a faster rate than any other known bird. Remarkably, unlike ...

Biology /

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nearly a century later, new findings support Warburg theory of cancer

German scientist Otto H. Warburg's theory on the origin of cancer earned him the Nobel Prize in 1931, but the biochemical basis for his theory remained elusive.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1