Scientists find cellular backup plan for keeping iron levels just right
Iron is essential for cells to function, but excess iron can damage cells. Accordingly, cells have sophisticated molecular mechanisms to constantly sense and adjust iron...
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Real or fake? Creating fingers to protect identities
Credit: Michigan State University Do you know how safe it is to use your finger as a security login? And have you wondered how your...
EU life science research institutes want a more balanced Framework Programme 9
Credit: VIB EU-LIFE, the alliance of 13 leading Life Science Research Institutes in Europe announced their key priorities for the next Framework Programme for Research...
Researchers discover unique property of critical methane-producing enzyme
An unexpected discovery has given scientists a greater understanding of an important methane-producing enzyme. A team of researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for...
$2.375 million federal award to study epigenetic control systems, inform drug discovery
Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Research Institute September 20, 2017 (Grand Rapids, Michigan)--Van Andel Research Institute scientist Scott Rothbart, Ph.D., has been awarded a five-year,...
Animal acoustic activity decline shows forest fire pollution wreaks havoc on wildlife
Credit: Benjamin Lee Forest fires in Southeast Asia during the El Niño droughts of 2015 caused considerable disruption to the biodiversity of the region due...
Dinosaur evolution: Lumbering giants had agile ancestors
Credit: Source: Rodolfo Nogueira The best known sauropod dinosaurs were huge herbivorous creatures, whose brain structures were markedly different from those of their evolutionary predecessors,...
Breaking legume’s crop wild relative barrier
Credit: PS Rao. Domesticating plants to grow as crops can turn out to be a double-edged scythe. On one hand, selecting specific desirable traits, such...
Loma Linda University study says eating nuts can reduce weight gain
A study recently published in the online version of the European Journal of Nutrition has found that people who include nuts in their diet are...
Novel small antibody fragment: A valuable tool in crystallography
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Antibodies are a powerful weapon system in defending our body against invaders such as bacteria and viruses. Each antibody consists...
Rolling dice for cell size specification in plant leaf epidermis
Credit: NIBB One of the central questions in biology is how a cell specifies its size. Because size distribution often shows a characteristically skewed pattern...
More mouths can be fed by boosting number of plant pores
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Scientists at ITbM, Nagoya University have synthesized a new bioactive small molecule that has the ability to increase stomata numbers on...
Bite force research reveals dinosaur-eating frog
Credit: Kristopher Lappin Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar would have been...
Test for safe CO2 storage to aid world-leading technology project
A new method that inexpensively monitors the safe storage of industrial greenhouse gas emissions is to be used by a leading research project. The test...
Small intestine permeable peptides facilitate digestive tract absorption
Credit: Professor Sumio Ohtsuki Biopharmaceuticals, medium- and high-molecular weight biologically active macromolecules, are not easily absorbed by the small intestine, the main organ responsible ..
