A study using fruit flies, led by researchers at the Universities of Manchester and Leicester, supported by the National Physical Laboratory, has suggested that the animal world's ability to sense a magnetic field may be ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2023
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In a new study published in eLife, lead author Carolyn Elya, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, reveals the molecular and cellular underpinnings behind the parasitic ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 19, 2023
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Studies of ancient preserved plant remains from a medieval archaeological site in the Pamir Mountains of Uzbekistan have shown that fruits such as apples, peaches, apricots and melons were cultivated in the foothills of Inner ...
Archaeology
Aug 14, 2018
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When it comes to determining how women and men store fat differently, it turns out fruit flies may hold the key.
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2020
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Cancer cells are normal cells that go awry by making bad developmental decisions during their lives. In a study involving the fruit fly equivalent of an oncogene implicated in many human leukemias, Northwestern University ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 20, 2016
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By examining how fruit flies use eye movements to enhance flight control with a staggeringly fast reaction speed—about 30 times faster than the blink of an eye—Penn State researchers have detailed a framework to mimic ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 1, 2020
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Tomatoes are a staple in diets worldwide and an essential part of sustainable agriculture. Now, scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) have reported insights into a long-known tomato mutation, unlocking the potential ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 7, 2023
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The ability to process alcohol may have saved humanity's ancestors from extinction, a new book suggests.
Evolution
Dec 5, 2019
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Genes which determine animal complexity – or what makes humans so much more complex than a fruit fly or a sea urchin – have been identified for the first time.
Biotechnology
Sep 29, 2017
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a tiny sensor for detecting pesticides on fruit in just a few minutes. The technique, described as a proof-of-concept in a paper in the journal Advanced Science, ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 7, 2022
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