Researchers at the University of Haifa, the Weizmann Institute and the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have built the first atlas of all of the different types of cells in Stylophora pistillata, a reef-building stony ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2021
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A research team from the University Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BIOTECMED) of the University of Valencia has carried out a study comparing two key repressors of the cell cycle (Whi5 and Whi7), to know the ...
Biotechnology
Apr 22, 2021
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The results of coral beaching are obvious—stark underwater forests of white coral skeletons—yet the physiological processes of bleaching are not well understood. Now, KAUST researchers show that, long before signs of ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2021
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A cast of so-called 'nurse cells' surrounds and supports the growing fruit fly egg during development, supplying the egg—or 'oocyte'—with all the nutrients and molecules it needs to thrive. Long viewed as passive in this ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2021
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With the hope of contributing to the fight against cancer, researchers in Sweden have published a new molecular mapping of proteins that regulate the cell division process—identifying 300 such proteins.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 24, 2021
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Bacteria have many ways to evade the antibiotics that we use against them. Each year, at least 2.8 million people in the United States develop an antibiotic-resistant infection, and more than 35,000 people die from such infections, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 18, 2021
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The processes in living beings follow a finely orchestrated choreography down to the molecular level. Rhythmic processes are found everywhere in biology, for example, the 24-hour circadian cycle, a kind of 'internal clock,' ...
Biochemistry
Feb 16, 2021
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An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of a capuchin monkey for the first time, uncovering new genetic clues about the evolution of their long lifespan and large brains.
Biotechnology
Feb 15, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Israel has discovered the means by which salmonella bacteria use a metabolite to reprogram the Krebs cycle to promote their own survival. In their paper published ...
Aberdeen scientists have made an important discovery about a branch of ancient life which plays an important—if perhaps not fully understood role—in our world's ecosystem.
Evolution
Dec 17, 2020
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