There's a lot that can be done with a corn cob after the kernels have been removed. Farmers leave the cobs on the field to boost soil quality. Enterprising cooks use the cobs to make jelly. In China, the sugar xylose is extracted ...
Biotechnology
May 3, 2013
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An international research group has investigated the mechanisms of cell migration and the impact of tissue rigidity on cell positioning and steering. The research sheds light on, for example, cancer cell migration, and opens ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 12, 2022
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(Phys.org) —Red on yellow, kill a fellow. Red on black, friend of Jack. That folk rhyme is supposed to help people distinguish venomous coral snakes from several non-venomous "mimics," animals that discourage predators ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Scientists at the University of York have discovered that very small chemical changes to dietary flavonoids cause very large effects when the plant natural products are tested for their impact on the human immune ...
Biochemistry
Aug 30, 2013
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Water bear. Moss piglet. Tardigrade
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2019
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To understand why a cell divides, secretes hormones or transmits a signal to another cell, biologists often use a trick. They attach colored lights to the proteins of interest, so that they can follow the movements and interactions ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 27, 2023
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(Phys.org)—A team of Israeli, French and Swiss biologists have discovered how a strain of the bacterium Halomonas known as GFAJ-1, manages to survive in California's Mono Lake despite arsenic levels that would kill most ...
How do the communities of microbes living in our gastrointestinal systems affect our health? Carnegie's Will Ludington was part of a team that helped answer this question.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 2, 2019
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An extraordinary find allowing scientists to see through the head of the 'fuxianhuiid' arthropod has revealed one of the earliest evolutionary examples of limbs used for feeding, along with the oldest nervous system to stretch ...
Archaeology
Feb 27, 2013
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French and South African biologists will dive to deep-sea caves in the Indian Ocean next month in a bid to locate the coelacanth, the "living fossil" fish whose history predates the dinosaurs, France's National Museum of ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2013
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