Technology that was first used to distinguish healthy tissues from cancerous ones in humans has been successfully used to identify insects.
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2021
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Limpets—those coin-sized, suction-cup critters with conical caps—have had the experts fooled all along.
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2020
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A trio of researchers at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute has conducted a review of the ways that periodic activation of satellite cells through exercise can lessen senescence acquisition and myogenic decline. In their ...
A new tool has been created to explain how tissue growth leads to the range of plant and animal forms we see around us.
Plants & Animals
May 31, 2019
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Circadian clocks regulate the behaviour of all living things. Scientists from the University of Würzburg have now taken a closer look at the clock's anatomical structures and molecular processes in the honeybee.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 17, 2018
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University of Dundee researchers have shown that it is possible to rapidly target and destroy specific proteins in cells, raising the possibility of developing new ways of targeting 'undruggable' proteins in diseases.
Biochemistry
May 10, 2017
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Scientists have uncovered key processes in the healthy development of cells which line the human gut, furthering their understanding about the development of cancer.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 7, 2017
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Identifying stress hormones in insects can be a step towards environmentally friendly pesticides. Researchers from Stockholm University have discovered that one hormone coordinates the responses to stress in fruit flies. ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2016
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A number of new links between families of genes and brain size have been identified by UK scientists, opening up a whole new avenue of research to better understand brain development and diseases like dementia.
Biotechnology
Oct 5, 2016
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The move from life on land to life in the sea has led to the evolution of a new sense for sea snakes, a University of Adelaide-led study suggests.
Plants & Animals
Jun 8, 2016
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