Search results for thermogenesis

Cell & Microbiology Jan 2, 2024

Researchers propose 'RNAkine' nomenclature for naming extracellular ncRNAs

Throughout the history of RNA research, one can immediately notice a significant breakthrough during 2007 and 2008, in which several groups independently reported the discovery of intact noncoding RNA (ncRNA) sequences in ...

Plants & Animals Jun 20, 2023

Largest study of its kind explores rare heat patterns in plants

In a new study published in The Plant Journal, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, University of Hamburg and partners have developed new approaches to compare and investigate the ability of plants in the genus ...

Cell & Microbiology May 31, 2023

Study uncovers key details of fat cells, advancing potential treatments for obesity, diabetes

New research has unlocked insights into how "good fat" tissue could potentially be harnessed to combat obesity and remove glucose from the blood, helping to control diabetes. Published today in Science Advances, the work ...

Evolution Jan 19, 2023

Evolutionary loss of a ryanodine receptor isoform appears to explain how resting muscles produce heat

A team of researchers from the University of Queensland, La Trobe University and Monash University, all in Australia, has found evidence that suggests the evolutionary loss of a ryanodine receptor isoform may explain how ...

Evolution Oct 7, 2022

Tracing a possible origin of animal pollination

An international team of researchers including Florian Etl and Jürg Schönenberger from the University ofVienna, Stefan Dötterl and Mario Schubert from the University of Salzburg, and Oliver Reiser and Christian Kaiser from ...

Cell & Microbiology Aug 8, 2022

Study links malignant hyperthermia to heat-hypersensitive mutant calcium channel proteins

Hot summer temperatures may have you reaching for a fan and an iced drink in your quest to keep cool. But now, researchers from Japan have found that some mutant proteins are even less tolerant of the heat, getting trapped ...

Plants & Animals Jun 30, 2022

Comparative analyses of American and Asian lotus genomes

Nelumbo is a unique genus of Nelumbonaceae (lotus), which comprises two extant species: N. nucifera Gaertn. widely distributed in Asia and northern Australia, and N. lutea Pers. which is distributed in America. These two ...

Biochemistry May 31, 2022

Alzheimer's disease causes cells to overheat and 'fry like eggs'

Researchers have shown that aggregation of amyloid-beta, one of two key proteins implicated in Alzheimer's disease, causes cells to overheat and "fry like eggs."

Evolution Dec 13, 2021

Warm-bodied ties between mammals and birds more ancient than previously recognized

The evolutionary origin of endothermy (the ability to maintain a warm body and higher energy levels than reptiles), currently believed to have originated separately in birds and mammals, could have occurred nearly 300 million ...

Plants & Animals Jul 8, 2021

Scientists learn how otters stay hotter

Sea otters are a hardy lot.

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