They say timing is everything, and that couldn't be more true for cell cycle progression and differentiation. Now, researchers from Japan have found that the circadian clock is crucial for proper plant development.
Plants & Animals
Aug 12, 2022
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In a new University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers define how the circadian clock influences cell growth, metabolism and tumor progression. Their research also reveals how disruption of the circadian clock impacts ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 10, 2022
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The circadian clock entrains rhythmic patterns in behavioral and physiological processes to temporally coordinate systemic metabolism with the rising and setting of the sun. In previous investigation on human subjects, sphingomyelins ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 4, 2022
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Researchers have designed smart, color-controllable white light devices from quantum dots—tiny semiconductors just a few billionths of a meter in size—which are more efficient and have better color saturation than standard ...
Nanophysics
Aug 3, 2022
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Have you ever noticed that the time you take your daily caffeine hit can change how it affects you?
Plants & Animals
Jul 28, 2022
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Sleep is important for our health and well-being, and bad sleep can negatively impact our attention span, memory, decision-making skills, creativity and judgment.
Space Exploration
Jun 30, 2022
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Light affects most organisms. In plants, many behaviors and functions are determined by the length of light and dark cycles, including flowering. In the most recent publication of The Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2022
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"Nothing is certain except for death and taxes," said Benjamin Franklin. Of course, he left out another certainty for humankind: sleep. All humans sleep, albeit some better than others. But do all animals sleep, too?
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2022
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Besides planting milkweed in the garden, people interested in helping monarch butterflies might want to turn off the porch light.
Ecology
May 20, 2022
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Scientists want to increase their understanding of circadian rhythms, those internal 24-hour biological clock cycles of sleeping and waking that occur in organisms, ranging from humans to plants to fungi to bacteria. A research ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 15, 2022
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