Legumes such as peas and beans form intimate and mutually beneficial partnerships (symbioses) with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, rhizobia. The plant benefits from an enhanced supply of nitrogen, 'fixed' from the air by the rhizobia, ...
Ecology
Mar 1, 2019
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By taking nitrogen out of the air and turning it into plant nutrients, some bacteria help plants like beans, peas, and clovers thrive. How? A study shows that the traditional view of this symbiotic relationship doesn't capture ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 28, 2019
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In the fairy tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," Goldilocks invades the bears' house, where she finds three bowls of porridge, but only one has just the right temperature. Similarly, in biological processes, there often ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2018
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New findings show that a micro RNA from the shoot keeps legume roots susceptible to symbiotic infection by downregulating a gene that would otherwise hinder root responses to symbiotic bacteria. These findings reveal what ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2018
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The evaluation of very large amounts of data is becoming increasingly relevant in ocean research. Diving robots or autonomous underwater vehicles that carry out measurements independently in the deep sea can now record large ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 11, 2018
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In cooperation with an international team, Senckenberg scientists examined the impact of deep-sea mining – such as the extraction of manganese nodules – on the species diversity at the ocean floor. They were able to show ...
Environment
Sep 7, 2018
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Early diagnosis in thyroid cancer can improve a patient's likelihood of recovery, but current screening methods use instruments with poor sensitivity and can yield inaccurate results. Consequently, doctors often have to rely ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 19, 2018
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Researchers have discovered a new efficient way to generate thyroid cells, known as thyrocytes, using genetically modified embryonic stem cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 2, 2017
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Last spring, researchers made headlines with the discovery of what was surely a new species of octopod, crawling along the seafloor at a record-breaking ocean depth of more than 4,000 meters (about 2.5 miles) off Necker Island ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2016
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Plants use receptor kinases as molecular antennas to monitor their environment but, strangely, one of them is actively cleaved. A new study discovered that one of the resulting pieces interacts with a receptor for bacterial ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 19, 2014
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