Researchers from Murdoch University have developed an environmentally friendly 'gene silencing' method to control Root Lesion Nematodes, plant pathogens known to reduce crop yields in major crops such as whea ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

Eggs take a long time to produce in the ovary, and thus are one of a body's precious resources. It has been theorized that the body has mechanisms to help the ovary ensure that ovulated eggs enter the reproductive tract at ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 17, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

The first red alga genome has just been sequenced by an international team coordinated by CNRS and UPMC at the Station Biologique de Roscoff (Brittany), notably involving researchers from CEA-Genoscope, the ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 21, 2013 3 / 5 (7) 8

A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has filled in a billion-year gap in our understanding of conditions in the early ocean during a critical time in the history ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 18, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 3 |

Normal development and function in multicellular organisms relies on tight control of cell growth, yet surprisingly little is known about how such control is achieved. Although some promoters of growth have ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—The evolution of multicellularity marks one of the most profound evolutionary developments contributing to the appearance of human and animal life on the planet. However, with relatively little known about this ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 22, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 3 |

The evolutionary history of proteins shows that protein folding is an important factor. Especially the speed of protein folding plays a key role. This was the result of a computer analysis carried out by ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 31, 2013 not rated yet 0

A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has tested a popular hypothesis in paleo-ocean chemistry, and proved it false.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Dec 23, 2012 4.9 / 5 (17) 15 |

European researchers at Linköping University in Sweden are showing how bacteria control processes in human cells through a process called quorum sensing. This phenomenon is where bacteria talk to each other ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Dec 06, 2012 not rated yet 0

Researchers at RIKEN BioResource Center and their colleagues identified a gene required for growth and differentiation of pluripotential cells in the mouse embryos. The gene, Vps52, is a mouse ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 09, 2012 not rated yet 0

MicroRNAs are essential regulators of the genetic program in multicellular organisms. Because of their potent effects, the production of these small regulators has itself to be tightly controlled. That is ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 08, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Bacteria can talk to each other via molecules they themselves produce. The phenomenon is called quorum sensing, and is important when an infection propagates. Now, researchers at Linköping University in Sweden are showing ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 06, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

With a combination of microscopic laser scissors and modern sequencing methods, biologists at the Ruhr-Universität have analyzed the activity of genes in the entire genome of certain fungi in one fell swoop. ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 01, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have elucidated the histone modifications that lead to the sequestration of silent genes at the nuclear periphery. In ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Aug 31, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

The threads of an evolutionary mystery that dates to the birth of molecular biology are beginning to unravel, thanks to a new investigation by computational bioengineers at Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Aug 30, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |