Scientists predict 'optimal' organism stress levels
Scientists have created an evolutionary model to predict how animals should react in stressful situations.
Plants & Animals
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Molecular vibrations of water predict global distributions of photosynthetic organisms in lakes and oceans
Why have cyanobacteria and algae evolved a wide variety of photosynthetic pigments, and how are these pigments distributed geographically? Scientists from the University of Amsterdam and Roscoff (France) give an intriguing ...
Ecology
Nov 10, 2020
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Peering under the hood of SARS-CoV-2
Information from electron microscope images and protein databases has been used to develop a detailed 3D model of SARS-CoV-2, which can be readily updated as new data becomes available. The modeling tool has potential for ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 9, 2020
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Cells transform themselves in male worms to improve mating
A cell in worms that transforms itself into a completely different type of cell when males mature, to play a key role in mating behavior, has been recently discovered by a team led by UCL researchers. The researchers say ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2020
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Model for acid-tolerant yeast helps guide industrial organic acid production
Microbes and other microscopic organisms could serve as sustainable "factories" to create many types of industrial materials because they naturally convert nutrients such as sugars into byproducts. However, creating industrial ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 4, 2020
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Framework to trace the path of individual carbon atoms
Like water molecules in a river, soil carbon atoms are always in motion.
Biochemistry
Nov 3, 2020
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A 'genomic rosetta stone' for discovering the rules of gene regulation
As early as 1975, biologists discovered that the protein-coding parts of the chimpanzee and human genomes are more than 99 percent identical. Yet, chimpanzees and humans are clearly different in significant ways. Why?
Biotechnology
Oct 26, 2020
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Correcting each other's mistakes—why cells stuck together in early evolution
Modern animals—including humans—are stunningly complex organisms made of many billions of cells that work together. These complex multicellular organisms evolved from much simpler organisms, and those, in turn, evolved ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 23, 2020
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Tiny beetles a bellwether of ecological disruption by climate change
As species across the world adjust where they live in response to climate change, they will come into competition with other species that could hamper their ability to keep up with the pace of this change, according to new ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2020
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Genetics or social environment: Who wins in the influence of behaviors?
Interactions between individuals of the same species shape many aspects of their biology, including their social behavior. Social genetic effects occur when the phenotype of an individual, defined as a set of their observable ...
Evolution
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