A single embryonic stem cell can develop into more than 200 specialized cell types that make up our body. This maturation process is called differentiation and is tightly regulated. If the regulation is lost, specialized ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 7, 2013
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New research explains how certain traits can pass down from one generation to the next – at least in plants – without following the accepted rules of genetics.
Biotechnology
Mar 26, 2013
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When researchers at the Buck Institute dialed back activity of a specific mRNA translation factor in adult nematode worms they saw an unexpected genome-wide response that effectively increased activity in specific stress ...
Biotechnology
Jul 5, 2011
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Light is essential for most life on Earth, and single-celled or small multicellular organisms were most likely first to develop the ability to respond to light. But now, researchers from Japan have identified interesting ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2022
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Circadian rhythms keep time for all living things, from regulating when plants open their flowers to foiling people when they try to beat jet lag. Day-night cycles are controlled through ancient biological mechanisms, evolutionarily ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 11, 2013
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Environmental damage caused by human activity can reduce the number of plant and animal species dramatically. At the same time, very little is known about how biodiversity recovers after ecosystem pollution is curtailed and ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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Genes trump environment as the primary reason that some adolescents are more likely than others to be victimized by crime, according to groundbreaking research led by distinguished criminologist Kevin M. Beaver of The Florida ...
Social Sciences
May 14, 2009
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(Phys.org)—A new way to visualize single-cell activity in living zebrafish embryos has allowed scientists to clarify how cells line up in the right place at the right time to receive signals about the next phase of their ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2012
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An animal's brain consists of two different types of cell: neurons, which process and transmit information, and glial cells, which support the neurons in a variety of ways. In 1871, the French anatomist Louis-Antoine Ranvier ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 8, 2023
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It's commonly known, at least among microbiologists, that microbes have an additional option to living or dying -- dormancy.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 26, 2011
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