Plants have a plan for all seasons
Many plants need to avoid flowering in the autumn – even if conditions are favourable – otherwise they would perish in winter.
Plants & Animals
Dec 28, 2018
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Cell Systems
How to make better biofuels? Convince yeast it's not starving
Yeast already helps make bread and beer and cranks out the biofuel ethanol, but scientists believe it can be used to create an even more efficient fuel called isobutanol. Normally, yeast only creates a tiny amount of isobutanol. ...
Biotechnology
Nov 14, 2019
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The rise to royalty: How worker wasps balance specialization and plasticity
An international team of biologists and theoretical physicists from Dresden (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems), Cambridge, UK (Babraham Institute) and Athens (B.S.R.C. "Alexander Fleming") has tackled ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2022
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222
Bacterial communities use sophisticated strategy to communicate over long distances
It's the way we end up with a fresh cup of coffee from a clump of beans. It's how ocean oil rigs extract petroleum from dense rock formations beneath the seafloor. It even helps explain how forest fires spread.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 25, 2018
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Researchers develop tool that analyzes biomedical data within minutes
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a tool that speeds up the analysis and publication of biomedical data from many months or years to mere minutes, transforming the way researchers communicate ...
Biotechnology
Nov 14, 2018
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106
Building bacteria to keep ourselves well
That feeling in your gut? Well, it's in your head, but some of it does truly start in the gastrointestinal tract.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 12, 2021
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90
Researchers use electric fields to herd cells like flocks of sheep
Princeton researchers have created a device that can herd groups of cells like sheep, precisely directing the cells' movements by manipulating electric fields to mimic those found in the body during healing. The technique ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 24, 2020
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495
Proteins use a lock and key system to bind to DNA
You can think of DNA as a string of letters—As, Cs, Ts, and Gs—that together spell out the information needed for the construction and function of cells. Each cell in your body shares the same DNA. So, for cells to take ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 16, 2019
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How a cell knows when to divide
How does a cell know when to divide? We know that hundreds of genes contribute to a wave of activity linked to cell division, but to generate that wave new research shows that cells must first grow large enough to produce ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 23, 2018
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Research may point to new ways to deliver drugs into bacteria
An exhaustive look at how bacteria hold their ground and avoid getting pushed around by their environment shows how dozens of genes aid the essential job of protecting cells from popping when tensions run high.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 16, 2016
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