News tagged with sexual cells
Scientists make stunning inner space observations
Scientists using high-powered microscopes have made a stunning observation of the architecture within a cell – and identified for the first time how the architecture changes during the formation of gametes, ...
May 01, 2012 |
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Malaria parasite goes bananas before sex: new study
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Melbourne shows how the malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) changes into a banana shape before sexual reproduction, a finding that could provide target ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Songbird brain synapses and glial cells capable of synthesizing estrogen
Colin Saldanha, a biology professor at American University in Washington, D.C., has always been intrigued by the hormone estrogen. Specifically, how the hormone that does so much (for example, it promotes sexual behavior ...
Jan 03, 2012 |
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Control gene for developmental timing discovered
University of Alberta researchers have identified a key regulator that controls the speed of development in the fruit fly. When the researchers blocked the function of this regulator, animals sped up their rate of development ...
Sep 28, 2011 |
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The machinery for recombination is part of the chromosome structure
During the development of gametes, such as egg and sperm cells in humans, chromosomes are broken and rearranged at many positions. Using state of the art technology, the research group of Franz Klein, professor for genetics ...
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Could bacterial hitchhikers influence formation of new host species?
Literature tells us that "no man is an island entire unto itself," but science reveals that we are in fact a walking, talking colony of microscopic creatures.
May 05, 2011 |
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Loch fossils show life harnessed sun and sex early on
Remote lochs along the west coast of Scotland are turning up new evidence about the origins of life on land.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Study shows early brain effects of HIV in mouse model
A new mouse model closely resembles how the human body reacts to early HIV infection and is shedding light on nerve cell damage related to the disease, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Crucial sex hormones re-routed by missing molecule
A hormone responsible for the onset of puberty can end up stuck in the wrong part of the body if the nerve pathways responsible for its transport to the brain fail to develop properly, according to research funded by the ...
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Dopamine model could play role in treating schizophrenia and drug addiction
In the brain, dopamine is involved in a number of processes that control the way we behave. If an action results in the substance being released, we are more likely to repeat the action. This applies to actions such as eating, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2010 |
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Targeting amyloid to stop HIV
(PhysOrg.com) -- Amyloid protein structures are best known for the troubles they pose in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Now researchers are trying to exploit their presence in a very different place - ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Protein critical in malaria parasite development identified
Research led by The University of Nottingham has opened up a new area of malaria parasite biology which could lead to new methods of controlling the transmission of this deadly disease.
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Non-stick coating of a protein found in semen reduces HIV infection
A non-stick coating for a substance found in semen dramatically lowers the rate of infection of immune cells by HIV a new study has found.
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Egg cells use unusual method of division
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study of egg cells using time-lapse microscopy, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered an unusual property ...
Aug 27, 2010 |
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Study of cell division sheds light on special mechanism in egg cells
In a study of egg cells using time-lapse microscopy, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered an unusual property of meiosis - ...
Aug 22, 2010 |
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