Prions may channel RNA's messages
Prions get mostly bad press, but they may be the keys to controlling protein synthesis in cells.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 15, 2021
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Origin of a complex life form revealed
Researchers from McGill University have revealed the steps by which two very distinct organisms—bacteria and carpenter ants—have come to depend on one another for survival to become a single complex life form. The study, ...
Evolution
Sep 02, 2020
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Knock-knock? Who's there? How coral let symbiotic algae in
New work from a team of Carnegie cell, genomic and developmental biologists solves a longstanding marine science mystery that could aid coral conservation. The researchers identified the type of cell that enables a soft coral ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2020
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Researchers map symbiotic relationships between trees and microbes worldwide
In and around the tangled roots of the forest floor, fungi and bacteria grow with trees, exchanging nutrients for carbon in a vast, global marketplace. A new effort to map the most abundant of these symbiotic relationships—involving ...
Environment
May 15, 2019
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These beetles have successfully freeloaded for 100 million years
Almost 100 million years ago, a tiny and misfortunate beetle died after wandering into a sticky glob of resin leaking from a tree in a region near present-day Southeast Asia. Fossilized in amber, this beetle eventually made ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 17, 2019
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Ancestors of land plants were wired to make the leap to shore
When the algal ancestor of modern land plants first succeeded in making the transition from aquatic environments to an inhospitable shore 450 million years ago, it changed the world by dramatically altering climate and setting ...
Biotechnology
Oct 05, 2015
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More than just a hill of beans: Phaseolus genome lends insights into nitrogen fixation
The US Department of Energy Office of Science has targeted research into the common bean because of its importance in enhancing nitrogen use efficiency for bioenergy crops sustainability, and for increasing plant resilience ...
Biotechnology
Jun 08, 2014
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Bodyguard fish: Corals attacked by toxic seaweed use chemical 911 signals to summon help
Corals under attack by toxic seaweed do what anyone might do when threatened – they call for help. A study reported this week in the journal Science shows that threatened corals send signals to fish "bodyguards" that quickly ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 08, 2012
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Alternative evolution: Why change your own genes when you can borrow someone else's?
It has been a basic principle of evolution for more than a century that plants and animals can adapt genetically in ways that help them better survive and reproduce.
Evolution
Jul 08, 2010
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Exploring fungi that forge relationships with plants
About 20 years ago, Bala Chaudhary worked in conservation and habitat restoration in California.
Ecology
Jun 07, 2022
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