An enzyme that can help release phosphorus from its organic forms has been identified in a study from the University of Sheffield's Institute for Sustainable Food, published in leading science journal PNAS.
Agriculture
Apr 12, 2022
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The next generation of scientists and inventors is already finding approaches to address society's problems. Today, a group of high school students and their instructor report a solution to the problem of lead contamination ...
Materials Science
Mar 23, 2022
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An international and multidisciplinary piece of research involving the participation of Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) concludes with the discovery of the mineralised fossil remains of the oldest sponges in the world—530 ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 16, 2021
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Sunlight influences an array of biochemical processes in plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. In numerous organisms, phytochromes—a special class of photoreceptors—absorb red or far-red light and transform it into signals ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 20, 2021
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Researchers from Bochum and Osnabrück have gained new insights into the structure of the Ras protein, which acts as a molecular switch for cell growth and is involved in the development of cancer. With the help of fluorescence ...
Biotechnology
Jun 2, 2021
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Many chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancers are associated with side-effects of varying severity, because they are toxic to normal cells as well as malignant tumors. This has motivated the search for effective alternatives ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2020
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Scientists at UNSW Sydney, together with collaborators from Western Sydney University and The Netherlands, were surprised to find that dihydrogen phosphate anions—vital inorganic ions for cellular activity—bind with other ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 7, 2020
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Scientists at the University of Sheffield have found that plants are able to co-exist because they share key nutrients, using grasslands from the Peak District.
Ecology
Mar 23, 2020
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Everything a cell does, from dividing in two to migrating to a different part of the body, is controlled by enzymes that chemically modify other proteins in the cell. Researchers at Princeton University have devised a new ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 13, 2020
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Cellular origin is well explained by the "endosymbiotic theory," which famously states that higher organisms called "eukaryotes" have evolved from more primitive single-celled organisms called "prokaryotes." This theory also ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 20, 2019
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