Bulb size matters: Uncovering the evolution of the plant kingdom’s doomsday preppers
Credit: Cody Howard GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Botanist Cody Coyotee Howard compares bulbs to living bunkers. With an underground stockpile of ...
Tag: Biology
Research on soldier ants reveals that evolution can go in reverse
Credit: Courtesy of Scott Powell, George Washington University Turtle ant soldiers look like real-life creatures straight out of a Japanese ...
Climate variations may impact the base of the food web along the California coast
Recent study reveals that natural climate cycles influence the base of the food web along the California coast and provides ...
Cryo-EM reveals unexpected diversity of photosystems
Credit: Ella Marushchenko Oxygenic photosynthesis is the conversion of sunlight into chemical energy that underpins the survival of virtually all ...
How a virus forms its symmetric shells
UC Riverside-led study could inform the design of engineered nano-shells used in drug deliveryCredit: Zandi lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6 million to study weedy invader
Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University Many farmers struggle with an enemy that looks like a friend. Agricultural weeds that are close ...
How new data can make ecological forecasts as good as weather forecasts
Credit: Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, with permission from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MADISON, Wis. -- When El Nino ...
Climate change at Mount Rainier to increase ‘mismatch’ between visitors, wildflowers
Credit: Elli Theobald Spring is coming, and with it comes the promise of warmer weather, longer days and renewed life. ...
The Protein Society announces DiversifyProteinScience
Credit: DiversifyProteinscience CANYON COUNTRY, CA - The Protein Society, the premier international society dedicated to supporting protein research, announces the ...
Annual Review of Cancer Biology uses Subscribe to Open to publish 2020 volume open access
Pilot OA program generates widespread support from institutional subscribersCredit: Annual Reviews Nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews is pleased to announce that ...
St. Jude finds cancer drug resistance genes and possibly how to limit their effects
Drug resistance is a leading cause of cancer death in children and adults with leukemia. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...
Copy/paste and delete — or how to thrive without gene regulation
IST Austria scientists demonstrate alternative evolutionary strategy -- study published in Nature Ecology & EvolutionCredit: IST Austria - Guet group ...
Strong signals show how proteins come and go
Rice University bioscientists develop chromosome-level detectors to track activity in cellsCredit: Segatori Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 9, 2020) ...
Uncovering novel relationships between SLCs and cytotoxic drugs in human cells
Credit: © Enrico Girardi / CeMM Solute carriers (SLCs) represent the largest family of transmembrane transporters in the human genome, ...