Scientists from the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology at the Vetmeduni Vienna have discovered that power-napping can help late-born garden dormice…
Which mating partner is the best? To answer this difficult question, female grasshoppers base their decision on the singing skills of their male conspecifics….
The research, published in the latest issue of the journal The Plant Cell, sheds light on how chromatin (the complex of DNA and proteins) is organized in a…
The research team, led by Prof Dr. Markus Egert of Furtwangen University, Schwenningen Campus, has been able to show that, contrary to the horror stories we…
Speed is an asset for a predator. Except when that predator runs so fast that it essentially blinds itself.
Most cancer deaths occur because of metastasis, yet progress in preventing and treating migratory cancer cells has been slow.
The “food” sources that support Florida red tides are more diverse and complex than previously realized, according to five years' worth of research on red tide…
In a recent study, published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, scientists from the University of Illinois discovered that 39 different KoRVs in a koala’s…
Does synthetic biology hold the key to manned space exploration of the Moon and Mars? Berkeley Lab researchers have used synthetic biology to produce an…
A research team led by Dr Jantje Gerdes and Professor Per-Olof Berggren now demonstrate that insulin receptors sit on the cilia of beta cells in the pancreas….
Jülich scientists have developed a new control technique for scanning probe microscopes that enables the user to manipulate large single molecules…
Scientists from Heidelberg University in collaboration with researchers from the University of Gießen have succeeded in electrochemically detecting protein…
The findings – the first published Aug. 28 in Science and the latest in the Nov. 6 issue of Nature Communications – give new understanding about genes and cell…
Tiny extensions on cells, cilia, play an important role in insulin release, according to a new study, which is published in Nature Communications. The…
Sex differences in olfactory detection may play a role in differentiated social behaviors and may be connected to one's perception of smell, which is naturally…
“A smile gains more friends than a long face.” This Chinese saying has been scientifically validated by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for…
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