Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus
Credit: Matthew Dillon/Flickr Life as we know it requires phosphorus. It's one of the six main chemical elements of life, ...
Tag: Biology
How do conifers survive droughts? Study points to existing roots, not new growth
Scientists can't see underground, but computational models are providing a new way to investigate how root systems might be changingCredit: ...
How bacteria control their cell cycle
Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University have demonstrated how bacteria coordinate cell division with ...
Better anchor roots help crops grow in poor soils
Credit: © 2019 KAUST A metabolite in plants that regulates the growth of anchor roots--vital for sustaining water and nutrient ...
Learning from the bears
Credit: Gotthardt Lab, MDC Grizzly bears spend many months in hibernation, but their muscles do not suffer from the lack ...
Which of these mushrooms could kill you? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2019 -- There are tens of thousands of mushroom species out there, ...
New insights into the earliest events of seed germination
Thiol redox switches regulate how plant seeds use their stored energy reserves / Study published in "PNAS"Credit: Bettina Richter Plant ...
Scientists reveal function of histone variant H2A.Z in DNA replication selection
Credit: Image by Dr. LI Guohong's lab The research published in Nature on Dec. 25th, 2019, led by Dr. LI ...
Researchers map malaria parasites proliferate in human blood cells
Credit: Kentaro Kato, Tohoku University Malaria parasites transform healthy red blood cells into rigid versions of themselves that clump together, ...
Finally, machine learning interprets gene regulation clearly
Credit: Kinney lab/CSHL, 2019 In this age of "big data," artificial intelligence (AI) has become a valuable ally for scientists. ...
Hematopoietic stem cell marker: A key player in the ontogeny of hematopoiesis
Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers at Osaka University revealed that ESAM (Endothelial cell-selective adhesion molecule), a surface marker ...
How cells relieve DNA replication stress
ATAD5 raised its profile as an active tumor suppressor by promoting DNA replication restart under replication stressCredit: IBS DNA stores ...
Mouse pups born from eggs derived from the granulosa cells that surround oocytes
Credit: Lin Liu By introducing a chemical cocktail to granulosa cells, researchers in China induced the cells to transform into ...
New technology allows control of gene therapy doses
Credit: Scripps Research JUPITER, Fla. -- Dec. 23, 2019 -- Scientists at Scripps Research in Jupiter have developed a special ...
Cultural evolution caused broad-scale historical declines of large mammals across China
Extirpations of 5 megafauna taxa from much of China over the past 2 millennia were found to be closely linked ...
Stanford study finds whales use stealth to feed on fish
Credit: Cascadia Research Collective; NMFS Permit 16111 Small fish are speedy and easy to scare. So how is it that ...
Climate change not the only threat to vulnerable species, habitat matters
UMass Amherst ecologist and team: Madagascar's rainforest could be lost this century, threatening endangered lemursCredit: Andrea Baden/Hunter College AMHERST, Mass. ...
Where do baby sea turtles go? New research technique may provide answers
Credit: G. Stahelin A team of Florida researchers and their collaborators created a first-of-its-kind computer model that tracks where sea ...
Gone fishin’ — for proteins
Credit: Amélie Robert (IRCM) Using a new microscopic "fishing" technique, scientists at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and Université ...
A new tomato ideal for urban gardens and even outer space
Credit: Lippman lab/CSHL, 2019 Farmers could soon be growing tomatoes bunched like grapes in a storage unit, on the roof ...
