Juicy past of favorite Okinawan fruit revealed
Credit: Hidekazu Sumi Citrus fruits from the mandarin family have important commercial value but how their diversity arose has been ...
Tag: Biology
Oncotarget: TERT and its binding protein: overexpression of GABPA/B in gliomas
This Oncotarget study confirms the upregulation of TERT in primary glioblastomas while all GABP proteins rise with the malignancy of ...
Oncotarget: Replication-stress sensitivity in breast cancer cells
Taken together these Oncotarget findings show that the CTD and OD domains of mtp53 R273H play critical roles in mutant ...
New study sheds light on function of sex chromosomes in turtles
Credit: Nicole Valenzuela AMES, Iowa - A new study led by an Iowa State University scientist sheds light on how ...
Sharks, lies, and videotape: Scientists document problems with Shark Week
Credit: Marion Kraschl, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons MEADVILLE, PA - July 22, 2021 - Shark Week is ...
‘Feel good’ brain messenger can be willfully controlled, new study reveals
Neuroscientists show that mice can learn to manipulate random dopamine impulses for rewardCredit: Julia Kuhl From the thrill of hearing ...
UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research
USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...
“Noisy” gene expression may help improve stem cell therapies
Gladstone researchers discover fundamental mechanism that appears to speed the change of stem cells into other cell typesCredit: Photo: Michael ...
How the brain paints the beauty of a landscape
Researchers investigate how our brains proceed from merely seeing a landscape to feeling its aesthetic impactCredit: MPI for Empirical Aesthetics ...
Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots
Credit: Temur Yunusov and Alfonso Timoneda Almost all crop plants form associations with a particular type of fungi - called ...
Scientists identify five new plant species in Bolivia
Credit: John Wood Scientists have identified five new plant species in the Bolivian Andes. The species are all part of ...
The National Academy of Sciences admits IPK scientist Nicolaus von Wirén as member
Credit: IPK/ Andreas Bähring "When I received the news about my election by the members of the Leopoldina, I was ...
Topology in biology
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization When can we say that a certain property of a system is ...
Brain-repair discovery could lead to new epilepsy treatments
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a previously unknown repair process ...