In a new study, University of Maryland researchers have demystified the process by which cells receive their shape—and it all starts with a protein called actin.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 4, 2022
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Using holograms created in digital microscopes and interpreted using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers can now follow the lives of microplankton at the individual level for the first time. The method is the result ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2022
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Meiotic drivers are a type of selfish gene. Present in the genomes of nearly all species, including humans, they unfairly transfer their genetic material to more than half of their offspring, sometimes leading to infertility, ...
Evolution
Oct 20, 2022
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Bumblebees don't seem to keep memories for how sweet a flower was, but instead only remember if it was sweeter than another flower, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London, along with an international ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 14, 2022
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The adage "Seeing is believing" was front of mind for Dr. Chih-Wei Logan Hsu and Dr. Joshua D. Wythe at Baylor College of Medicine as they and their colleagues developed an innovative technology called EZ Clear. This new ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 13, 2022
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Researchers in Japan have identified a new species of bacteria with unique multicellular characteristics that may provide insight into how multicellularity arises, according to a study published today in eLife.
Evolution
Oct 12, 2022
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Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study published today in eLife shows.
Plants & Animals
Oct 11, 2022
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Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with a team of international collaborators, have discovered a previously unknown lineage of wild goats over ten millennia old. The research has just been published in the ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 6, 2022
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Cornell scientists have created an evolutionary model that connects organisms living in today's oxygen-rich atmosphere to a time, billions of years ago, when Earth's atmosphere had little oxygen—by analyzing ribonucleotide ...
Biochemistry
Oct 4, 2022
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A large part of our DNA is made up of selfish repetitive DNA elements, some of which can jump from one site in the genome to another, potentially damaging the genome. Researchers from the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 4, 2022
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