A new genus of plant bug and four new species have been discovered in Australia. The newly discovered insects, which belong to the family Miridae and the…
In natural microbial communities, different bacterial species often exchange nutrients by releasing amino acids and vitamins into their growth environment,…
University of Oregon scientists studying neural stem cells in the fruit fly Drosophila have uncovered a molecular change experienced by stem cells as they age….
The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be providing approximately EUR 11 million over the next four years to fund a new collaborative research center on…
Almost every second dog above the age of ten years develops cancer. Modern tumor therapy combines surgery, radiation therapy and novel drug treatment options….
Researchers from the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH) have discovered a complex of four proteins that, much like a multi-tool pocketknife,…
Gliomas are the most common brain tumors in adults and the prognosis for patients is, in many cases, very bad. Therefore, novel and effective therapies for…
Hibernation is a state of energy conservation during which body temperature and metabolism are drastically reduced. If this state lasts longer than 24 hours,…
When observing the colorful Turquoise killifish swimming in its aquarium, it is difficult to believe that it can serve as a model system for human aging; but…
If the price of a product is reduced, willingness to buy increases – the product appears cheaper even though it is perhaps still too expensive. Our perception…
No organism is an island – a fact that also applies to plants. Healthy plants host complex microbial communities comprising over 100 bacterial species which…
Neurons communicate with each other through specialized structures called synapses.
The information is transmitted in the form of synaptic vesicles that…
Ants are quite often infected by parasites. For example, tapeworms use ants as intermediate hosts for a part of their development phase before they complete…
Coral bleaching happens when sea temperatures rise, causing the breakdown of the symbiosis between coral and their zooxanthellae (the microscopic plants which…
Traditional computers rely on transistors that occupy one of two states — that's what those archetypal zeroes and ones refer to, and each digit is a “bit.”…
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to three research groups at Indiana University to advance research on self-assembling molecules and…
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