Fungal species naturally suppresses cyst nematodes responsible for major sugar beet losses
Credit: James Borneman The plant pathogenic nematode Heterodera schachtii infects more than 200 different plants, including sugar beets, and causes ...
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Tube-dwelling anemone toxins have pharmacological potential, mapping study shows
Analysis identified 525 genes encoding proteins that act on the nervous system, cardiovascular system and cell walls. One of the ...
UMass Amherst research compares sensitivity of all genes to chemical exposure
Using an unbiased approach, scientists for the first time analyzed more than ½-million chemical-gene interactionsCredit: UMass Amherst A University of ...
Water fleas on ‘happy pills’ have more offspring
All those medicines we take? A lot end up in treated wastewater -- with sometimes surprising resultsCredit: Photo: Per Harald ...
Losing ground in biodiversity hotspots worldwide
Agriculture, urban sprawl destroying biologically important areasCredit: Francesco Cherubini/NTNU Between 1992 and 2015, the world's most biologically diverse places lost ...
Molecular compass for cell orientation
Scientists at IST Austria discovered how the hormone auxin coordinates the cells during vasculature formation and regenerationCredit: Jakub Hajný / ...
Individual red foxes prefer different foods in the city and the countryside
Credit: S. Kramer-Schadt, IZW Foxes are considered to be particularly adaptable and suited to life in large cities. A team ...
Decadeslong effort revives ancient oak woodland
Credit: Photo by Stephen Packard CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Vestal Grove in the Somme Prairie Grove forest preserve in Cook County, ...
Shining a (UV) light on the glow-in-the-dark platypus
Biofluorescent fur could help some mammals spot each other after darkCredit: Goddard Photography The fur of the platypus - an ...
Groundbreaking study on trained immunity to fight cancer
Huge collaborative effort led by TU/e researcher Prof. Willem Mulder develops nanomaterials to help body's immune system fight cancerCredit: Willem ...
How the immune system deals with the gut’s plethora of microbes
Credit: Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics of The Rockefeller University The gut is an unusually noisy place, where hundreds of species ...
CAM modes provide environment-specific water-saving benefits in a leaf metabolic model
Credit: Toepfer/ IPK During photosynthesis, plants take in CO2 from the environment and, with the help of sunlight, convert it ...
NUS researchers develop novel process that turns waste into nutritional supplements
Credit: National University of Singapore The shells of crustaceans and wood waste such as branches pruned from trees usually end ...
Changes in subcellular traffic increase invasiveness of radioresistant cancer cells
Credit: Ping-Hsiu Wu Scientists have revealed the molecular mechanism regulating the trafficking of lysosomes that increases the invasiveness of radioresistant ...