A multi-institutional research group led by two Penn State faculty members has identified, for the first time, how cellulose crystals orient themselves relative to the cell wall in plants, with potential implications for ...
Materials Science
Nov 18, 2020
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Many plants, including legumes, make naturally occurring chemicals called saponins. For example, the medicinal plant licorice produces the saponin glycyrrhizin, a potent natural sweetener that also has antiviral and other ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2020
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More and more foods are now available in light versions with reduced fat.
Other
Nov 10, 2020
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms that are essential to human health, both in our environment and inside our own bodies. However, certain bacterial species can make us sick.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 9, 2020
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An international research team discovered a mechanism that disease-causing bacteria use to anchor their protective outer membranes. Their findings could inform strategies to disrupt a microbe's cell structure, ultimately ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 6, 2020
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During photosynthesis, leaves capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and transform it into organic compounds. However, getting from the leaf surface to the enzymes where carbon is fixed inside leaves is full of ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2020
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197
A virus attaches to a cell, picks the lock and enters, then takes control of genetic production and pumps out many versions of itself that explode out through the cell wall.
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 2, 2020
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Researchers based in Brazil and the United States have completed the first-ever mapping exercise to profile the toxins produced by tube-dwelling anemones, or cerianthids, a family of marine animals belonging to the same phylum ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2020
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10
Using the model Orobanchaceae parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum, scientists from Nagoya University and other research institutes from Japan have discerned the molecular mechanisms underlying plant parasitism and cross-species ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 9, 2020
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10
Efforts to find ways to break down cellulose—the tough stuff that makes up plant cell walls—faster and more productively has long been a goal of industrial researchers.
Biochemistry
Oct 8, 2020
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