As a species we're so brain-proud it doesn't occur to most of us to ask whether a big brain has disadvantages as well as cognitive benefits.
Evolution
Dec 21, 2016
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A research team led by Christa Schleper from the University of Vienna succeeded in isolating the first ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from soil: Nitrososphaera viennensis—the 'spherical ammonia oxidizer from Vienna.' In the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 14, 2016
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To study certain aspects of cells, researchers need the ability to take the innards out, manipulate them, and put them back. Options for this kind of work are limited, but researchers reporting May 10 in Cell Metabolism describe ...
Bio & Medicine
May 10, 2016
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Why does a great dane have a shorter lifespan than a pug? The answer lies in a complex relationship between energy usage and lifespan. That relationship is quickly being unraveled through the use of numerical modeling by ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2016
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Wine, beer and yogurt are produced when microorganisms convert sugar into alcohol, gases or acids. But this process of fermentation—which is used by bacteria, fungi and other fast-growing cells to generate energy in the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 2, 2015
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The way in which our cells convert food into fuel is shared by almost all living things - now scientists have discovered a likely reason why this is so widespread.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 29, 2015
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in China has added fluorescence to proteins inside the muscle cells of nematodes to monitor metabolic activity in the mitochondria. In so doing, they have found a link between the frequency ...
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered some key features that explain just what turns on a protein that is considered to be a master regulator of how the human body uses ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 2, 2013
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Each of our cells has an energy furnace, and it is called a mitochondrion. A Northwestern University-led research team now has identified a new mode of timekeeping that involves priming the cell's furnace to properly use ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 19, 2013
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Feeling faint from the flu? Is your cold causing you to collapse? Your infection is the most likely cause, and, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara research scientist Ryan Hechinger, it may be possible to know just ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2013
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