The bacterial foodborne pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis—a debilitating disease linked with ~2,500 illnesses and more than 500 deaths per annum in the US alone. A characteristic featur ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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Attaching chains of the small molecule ADP-ribose to proteins is important for a cell's survival and the repair of DNA damage, making this process a promising target for the development of new cancer drugs. Researchers have ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 12, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(AP)—When Superstorm Sandy struck a New York hospital four months ago, hundreds of patients were safely evacuated, but mice in a nearby research building were not so lucky.

Biology - Other

Mar 06, 2013 not rated yet 0

New research has uncovered a mechanism that regulates the reproduction of plants, providing a possible tool for engineering higher yielding crops.

Biology - Evolution

Mar 01, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

A procedure that allows accurate measurement of the levels of over 99% of the proteins generated by different strains of fission yeast could open the way for new laboratory applications of the species. Researchers ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

Four billion years ago, soon after the planet cooled enough for life to begin, primordial cells may have replicated and divided without protein machinery or cell walls, relying instead on just a flimsy lipid membrane. New ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 28, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Dr John Stewart has made important contributions to a growing body of work that shows how the evolution of ecosystems has to be taken into account when speculating between different geological eras. Go back ...

Biology - Evolution

Feb 26, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics when stressed, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. In particular E. coli grown at high temperatures become resistant to rifampicin ...

Biology - Evolution

Feb 21, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 3 |

(Phys.org)—On the front lines of our defenses against bacteria is the protein calprotectin, which "starves" invading pathogens of metal nutrients.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 21, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0 |

A genetically mosaic Eucalyptus tree is able to control which leaves are saved from predation because of alterations in its genes, finds an study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Plant Bi ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 19, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Understanding how and why diversification occurs is important for understanding why there are so many species on Earth. In a new study published on 19 February in the open access journal PLOS Biology, researchers show that s ...

Biology - Evolution

Feb 19, 2013 3.6 / 5 (12) 199 |

(Phys.org)—Species facing widespread and rapid environmental changes can sometimes evolve quickly enough to dodge the extinction bullet. Populations of disease-causing bacteria evolve, for example, as doctors ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 19, 2013 3 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org)—A single mutation in a moth gene has been shown to be able to produce an entirely new scent. This has been shown in a new study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden. In the long run, the researchers ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 19, 2013 not rated yet 1 |

(Phys.org)—Malignant melanoma is the most aggressive type of skin cancer. In more than 50 percent of affected patients a particular mutation plays an important role. As the life span of the patients carrying ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Feb 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |