Anthropogenic climate change is already affecting the marine plankton populations present in the western Mediterranean Sea. This is the result of a study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the ...
Environment
Jul 26, 2021
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A new method that analyzes how individual immune cells react to the bacteria that cause tuberculosis could pave the way for new vaccine strategies against this deadly disease, and provide insights into fighting other infectious ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 22, 2021
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Researchers from Osaka University have found that the attachment of a ubiquitin molecule to a protein called PCNA at the lysine 107 position causes gross chromosomal rearrangements. This lysine is located where two PCNA molecules ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 22, 2021
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What is life? The most basic and smallest form of life we know is a single cell. Trying to create living cells from scratch is therefore the ultimate goal for Alexander Mason. However, as a cell consists of lots of parts ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 13, 2021
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How does unicellular life transition to multicellular life? The research team of Professor Lutz Becks at the Limnological Institute of the University of Konstanz has taken a major step forward in explaining this very complex ...
Evolution
Jul 9, 2021
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Researchers have devised a way to multiply by more than ten-fold the accessible details of gene activity in individual cells. It's a big leap in the effort to understand cancer development, brain function, immunity and other ...
Biotechnology
Jul 6, 2021
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In a study published in Nature Methods, a team led by Prof. Xiong Wei and Prof. CANG Chunlei from University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences realized lysosome typing for the first time ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 28, 2021
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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, universities worldwide have been forced to reduce in-person interactions, altering how we connect and work with one another. The transition to a "virtual world" has been eye-opening, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 24, 2021
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A research team, led by Prof. Nathaniel S. Hwang and Prof. Byung-gee Kim, from Seoul National University (SNU) and Prof. Dong Yun Lee, from Hanyang University, has used enzymatic crosslinking to create nanofilms on cell surfaces. ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 24, 2021
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To understand what role an individual gene plays, biologists have, for 100 years, been using a trick of nature: While in principle, the genome in all cells of an organism is the same, mutations arise in individual cells. ...
Biotechnology
Jun 22, 2021
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