Is it possible to watch at the level of single cells how fish embryos become trout, carp or salmon? Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt have successfully combined two very advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques. ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 24, 2017
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There is a wide variety of animals living on the Arctic seabed. Attached to rocks, they feed by removing nutrients from the water using filters or tentacles. But it can take decades for these colonies to become established, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2019
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As greenhouse gases bubble up across the rapidly thawing Arctic, Sandia National Laboratories researchers are trying to identify other trace gases from soil microbes that could shed some light on what is occurring biologically ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2022
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Heliozoan axopodia are important for their motility. However, the underlying mechanism of their axopodial contraction has remained ambiguous. Recently, researchers from the Okayama University reported that microtubules are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 18, 2023
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For the first time, it was shown in living cells how the bacterium E. coli regulates genes that help it survive in a new environment. Biochemist Fatema Zahra Rashid managed to do this using a technique she fine-tuned. Her ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 21, 2023
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In Antarctic waters that would kill a person within minutes happily dwells a tiny, single-celled organism known as Euplotes focardii. In a new study, researchers from Italy's University of Camerino examine the genes and proteins ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 13, 2016
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Portland State University researchers have found that only about half the genes in a specific virus affecting single cell organisms is needed to infect a host. This means the virus can undergo major mutations without losing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 23, 2017
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Two groups in the UPV/EHU's Department of Geology have recently each published papers that demonstrate the versatility of analyzing the microfauna present in marine sediments.
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2023
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