Best known for its effects on fruit ripening and flower fading, the gaseous plant hormone ethylene shortens the shelf life of many fruits and plants by putting their physiology on fast-forward. In recent years, scientists ...
Feb 10, 2009
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Childbearing in medieval Europe was a highly perilous time with considerable risks for both mother and baby.
Archaeology
Mar 9, 2021
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An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of York has uncovered details about the diet of early farmers in the ...
Archaeology
Oct 3, 2018
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Plastic waste management is a pressing ecological, social, and economic challenge that has looked to diverse chemical-biology strategies to facilitate biodegradation. In a new report now on Science Advances, Mercedes Spinola-Amilibia ...
Every cell in an organism's body has the same copy of DNA, yet different cells do different things; for example, some function as brain cells, while others form muscle tissue. How can the same DNA make different things happen? ...
Biotechnology
Jul 10, 2013
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By mimicking the structure of the silk moth's antenna, University of Michigan researchers led the development of a better nanopore---a tiny tunnel-shaped tool that could advance understanding of a class of neurodegenerative ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 28, 2011
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Knowledge of the exact structure of proteins – those biological molecules that perform multifaceted and essential functions in the organism – is crucial, for example, in producing new active ingredients for drugs. This ...
General Physics
May 17, 2016
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A new study has identified novel insecticidal proteins in ferns. Professor Marilyn Anderson at La Trobe University said the discovery could lead to plant-made protein pest control for crop plants that are essential to global ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 23, 2023
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Lightning fast and yet highly sensitive: HHblits is a new software tool for protein research which promises to significantly improve the functional analysis of proteins. A team of computational biologists led by Dr. Johannes ...
Biotechnology
Dec 25, 2011
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Utilizing optical characteristics first demonstrated by the ancient Romans, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a novel, ultra-sensitive tool for chemical, DNA, and protein analysis.
Nanophysics
Feb 14, 2013
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