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Fruit fly study reveals a thermometer brain circuit promoting midday siesta on hot days
On the hottest summer days, you may find yourself dozing off in the middle of the day. In some parts of the world, it's a cultural norm to schedule "siestas" and shutter businesses during the warmest hours of the day. As ...
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New research model illuminates how organs communicate with each other
Our many different organ systems are in constant communication with each other. During exercise, for example, muscles send out signals to fat and liver tissue to release their energy sources. While these communication networks ...
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Technique for ready-to-use cells in research demonstrated
A new technique for freezing cells for use in biomedical research, based on polymer technology developed at the University of Warwick, has been validated in study, paving the way for faster results for scientists in their ...
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How do horticultural crops defend themselves against fungal pathogens?
Recently, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences summarized recent research progress on defense responses of horticultural crops to fungal pathogens and novel strategies to regulate the induction of plant resistance, ...
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Engineering a symbiotic relationship between E. coli and stinkbugs reveals clues about how symbiosis develops
A team of researchers with members affiliated with several institutions in Japan has learned more about the process involved in the development of natural symbiotic relationships by engineering an artificial one between E. ...
Live-seq: Sequencing a cell without killing it
RNA sequencing allows scientists to study the expression of genes in a cell. Since messenger RNA (mRNA) is generated from a DNA gene, that information can be used to identify the original gene sequence and thus measure the ...
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New clues to how plants retain healthy genomes, avoid mitochondrial disease
The devastation of mitochondrial diseases is felt by millions of people around the world, and about 1 in every 4,300 people in the United States.
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First structure of key COVID enzyme at human body temperature
Scientists studying a COVID-19 coronavirus enzyme at temperatures ranging from frosty to human-body warm discovered subtle structural shifts that offer clues about how the enzyme works. The findings, published in IUCrJ, the ...
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Researchers unravel cell biology through artificial intelligence
For our cells to proliferate, differentiate or migrate, the nucleus needs the help of its cytoskeleton, the scaffold surrounding the nucleus which provides cells with shape and solid structure. The disruption of this strong ...
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Aug 16, 2022
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Which microbes live in your gut? A microbiologist tries at-home test kits to see what they reveal about the microbiome
When you hear about the gut microbiome, does it ever make you wonder what tiny creatures are teeming inside your own body? As a microbiologist who studies the microbiomes of plants, animals and people, I've watched public ...
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Aug 16, 2022
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Cells regulating blood stem cell maintenance are diverse and conserved between species
Deep molecular analysis of the bone marrow microenvironment reveals that the cells regulating blood stem cell maintenance are more diverse than expected and have features likely to be conserved between species.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2022
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Social connection drives learning in bird brain
Juvenile zebra finches learn songs directly from a tutor—usually their father—through a social interaction that keeps them motivated and on-task. Young birds who simply hear the songs through a speaker, without the tutor's ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 16, 2022
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Research team introduces new technology for analysis of protein activity in cells
Proteins constitute principal building blocks in all living organisms. They are often described as the workers of the cell, where they—together or individually—perform numerous essential tasks. If something goes ...
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Aug 16, 2022
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Similarity of hepatocytes from liver and from stem cells improved
Research with stem cells is becoming increasingly important, because stem cells can develop into any body cell—skin cells, nerve cells or organ cells such as liver cells, the so-called hepatocytes. Stem cells can therefore ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 15, 2022
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New tRNA promotes synthesis of streptomyces antibiotics
A research team led by Prof. Liu Guangxiu from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has isolated a fast-growing desert streptomycete from an extreme environment ...
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Aug 15, 2022
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Exploring the limits of G protein-coupled receptors
How do signals from outside the cell cause a response inside it? Such outside signals could be hormones or neurotransmitters. To notice them, the cell's surface possesses receptors. One of the key classes of such receptors ...
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Aug 15, 2022
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Cell chatter tells story of arterial thickening
Arteries can become thicker due to high blood pressure. However, the cause of this thickening is unclear. TU/e researchers along with colleagues from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland have developed a new computer model to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 12, 2022
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First synthetic embryos: The scientific breakthrough raises serious ethical questions
Children, even some who are too young for school, know you can't make a baby without sperm and an egg. But a team of researchers in Israel have called into question the basics of what we teach children about the birds and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 12, 2022
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Loss of RNA editing in the Caᵥ1.3 channel to enhance spatial memory comes at a price
In biology, it has been observed that genetic information flows from genomic DNA to messenger RNA and finally, to the protein. The genetic information embedded within the DNA has been touted as the "Language of Life".
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Aug 12, 2022
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Single-cell RNA sequencing to study salmonella infection
In May 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled Jif peanut butter due to potential salmonella contamination. In the last 5 years alone, there have been ~35 food-related salmonella outbreaks. Salmonella enterica ...
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Aug 12, 2022
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