A global analysis raises the minimum estimated number of tropical tree species to at least 40,000 to 53,000 worldwide in a paper appearing in Proceedings of…
Now a team from EMBL Heidelberg and Stanford University led by Lars Steinmetz has turned this on its head in an article published in Cell. The researchers have…
The most aggressive largemouth bass in the lake are also the ones most prized by anglers. These are the fish that literally 'take the bait' and put the fun…
Microorganisms that normally compete or overthrow one another can switch to a cooperative lifestyle when their living conditions change: They even start…
Membrane receptors are participating as important switching molecules in almost all biological processes. These commonly complex proteins are located in the…
Charles Darwin had a very clear opinion of Galápagos marine iguanas – “a hideous-looking creature, of a dirty black colour, stupid and sluggish in its…
The membranes of the cells in our bodies are only approximately 4 to 5 nanometers thick and consist of a complex mixture of lipids and specific membrane…
Students of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) can now opt for taking a more research-oriented approach to their subject by…
One such event, the Grande Coupure, was a wipeout of many European mammal species 33.9 million years ago when global temperatures and precipitation declined…
The function of brain macrophages is controlled by metabolites of gut bacteria, called short-chain fatty acids. Mice without gut bacteria developed stunted…
“Removal of any one of the proteins results in an increase in cellular fat content, which is analogous to obesity,” says study coauthor Bader Al-Anzi, a…
Recent forecasts on the impacts of climate change on the world's coral reefs–especially ones generated from oceanic surface temperature data gathered by…
The bunyavirus family includes five different groups of viruses which trigger serious illnesses in humans and animals and which can also cause significant…
The findings, reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, involve the formation of plasmoids in the hot, charged plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions….
Increasing demand from high technology sectors for better approaches to industrial production is prompting the emergence of a new generation of chemical…
The synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), with a view to their industrial-scale production, is attracting heavy scientific interest. Their unique chemical…
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