A common roundworm widely studied for its developmental biology and neuroscience, also might be one of the most surprising examples of the eat-local movement. Princeton University researchers have found that the organisms ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 23, 2017
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A tiny speck inside the cells of a tiny worm is shedding new light on the underlying mechanism that determines the size of various organisms.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 1, 2017
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Sometimes old-school methods provide the best ways of studying cutting-edge tech and its effects on the modern world.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 26, 2017
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Anyone who has allowed a child to "help" with a project quickly learns that kids, no matter how intelligent or eager, are less competent than adults. Teenagers are more capable—but, as every parent knows, teens can be ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2017
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As the floor plan of the living world, DNA guides the composition of animals ranging from unicellular organisms to humans. DNA not only helps shepherd every organism from birth through death, it also plays an essential role ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 7, 2016
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Going hungry at an early age can cause lifelong health problems. But the extent of malnutrition's damage depends on mom's diet too—at least in worms.
Biotechnology
Oct 27, 2016
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Nagoya University-led researchers use nematode worms as a model to identify a new target of the type 2 diabetes drug metformin; ion exchanger protein NHX-5 and its related protein in fruit flies are potential metformin targets, ...
Biochemistry
Oct 13, 2016
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Susan Gasser and her group at the FMI have found the pathway through which eukaryotic organisms protect their genomes from rearrangements and deletions that arise from repetitive DNA. Human genomes, like those of simple animals ...
Biotechnology
Oct 10, 2016
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The one millimetre long roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as a model organism in scientific research, and has therefore been extensively examined. A research group at Uppsala University has now demonstrated that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 5, 2016
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A research team led by a Northwestern University scientist has discovered that male animals, through their invisible chemical "essence," prime female animals for reproduction but with the unfortunate side effect of also hastening ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2016
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