All life forms have to adapt to the environment in which they live. A warming climate can lead to more frequent drought. This can affect Earth's biological diversity.
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2022
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The virus that causes COVID-19 has adopted some stealth moves to stay alive and kicking, and one secret to its success is hiding from the immune system by spreading through cell-to-cell transmission, a new study has found.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 23, 2021
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Given that less than 10 percent of synthetic plastics are recycled, the petroleum-derived, non-biodegradable materials continue to accumulate across the planet, covering stretches of land and the ocean floor. Microplastics ...
Biochemistry
Dec 20, 2021
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A team of researchers from IFREMER, French Institute for Sea Research and the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, IMEDEA, has found evidence of diatom communication through the use of natural fluorescence. In their ...
Scientists now have a deeper understanding of how a fungus develops a symbiotic lifestyle inside grass leaf and why the grass leaf fails to defend itself against the intruder, thanks to research coming from Massey University ...
Agriculture
Dec 2, 2021
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A team of researchers led by UC Riverside has demonstrated for the first time one way that a small molecule turns a single cell into something as large as a tree. For half a century, scientists have known that all plants ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 18, 2021
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When you think about how rapidly computers filled our homes, our cars and even ourselves through watches and earpieces, it might be hard to believe that there is a massive gap between computer's processing power and the speed, ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 17, 2021
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Bacteria as unicellular organisms reproduce by dividing their entire organism. In this way, they can multiply particularly quickly, which allows the exponential growth of bacterial populations, also known from pathogens. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2021
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In a new study published in Nature Communications, Associate Professor Tuo Wang and his research team from the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University revealed the molecular architecture of fungal cell walls ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 15, 2021
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The mechanism which allows β-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, to kill MRSA has been revealed for the first time.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 25, 2021
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