News tagged with multicellular organisms

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Common fungicide wreaks havoc on freshwater ecosystems

Chlorothalonil, one of the world's most common fungicides used pervasively on food crops and golf courses, was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms in a new study, University of South Florida researchers said ...

Biology / Ecology

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Scientists open new window into how cancers override cellular growth controls

Rapidly dividing cancer cells are skilled at patching up damage that would stop normal cells in their tracks, including wear and tear of telomeres, the protective caps at the end of each chromosome.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the brain cell works: A dive into its inner network

University of Miami biology professor Akira Chiba is leading a multidisciplinary team to develop the first systematic survey of protein interactions within brain cells. The team is aiming to reconstruct genome-wide ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Size matters: Sugars regulate communication between plant cells

Multicellular organisms must have a means for cells to communicate with one another. Past research has shown that plants possess the ability to directly transfer materials between adjacent cells, through holes in their cell ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers build largest protein interaction map to date

Researchers have built a map that shows how thousands of proteins in a fruit fly cell communicate with each other . This is the largest and most detailed protein interaction map of a multicellular organism, demonstrating ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify mysterious life forms in the extreme deep sea (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A summer research expedition organized by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has led to the identification of gigantic amoebas at one of the deepest locations ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 23, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Simple genetic circuit forms stripes: Synthetic biology helps scientists sort out pattern formation

Many living things have stripes, but the developmental processes that create these and other patterns are complex and difficult to untangle. Now a team of scientists has designed a simple genetic circuit that creates a striped ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why many cells are better than one

Researchers from Johns Hopkins have quantified the number of possible decisions that an individual cell can make after receiving a cue from its environment, and surprisingly, it's only two.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Old life capable of revealing new tricks after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaea are among the oldest known life-forms, but they are not well understood. It was only in the 1970s that these single-celled microorganisms were designated as a domain of life distinct ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Worms from hell identified far below the Earth's surface

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study published this week in Nature, researchers Gaetan Borgonie from Ghent University in Belgium and Tullis Onstott from Princeton University announced the discovery of new nematode specie ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers discover how plants control the formation of wood cells

An international research group headed by Professor and Research Director Yrjo Helariutta has discovered the genetic process that controls the development of wood cells in the roots of plants. Wood is the vascular tissue ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Policing' stops cheaters from dominating groups of cooperative bacteria

For cooperation to persist in the often violently competitive realm of bacteria, cheaters must be kept in line.

Biology / Evolution

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover animal-like urea cycle in tiny diatoms in the ocean

Scientists have discovered that marine diatoms, tiny phytoplankton abundant in the sea, have an animal-like urea cycle, and that this cycle enables the diatoms to efficiently use carbon and nitrogen from their ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Organizing the slime mold

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cells at the tip of the slime mold's fruiting body organize into an epithelial layer and secrete proteins as do some animals cells.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Conceptualizing cancer cells as ancient 'toolkit'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite decades of research and billions of dollars, cancer remains a major killer, with an uncanny ability to evade both the body's defenses and medical intervention. Now an Arizona State ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast