An insect’s sense of smell is vital to its survival. Only if it can trace even tiny amounts of odor molecules is it is able to find food sources, communicate…
The researchers detail their findings in a paper published recently in the journal Developmental Cell.
By determining the key factor in regulating photosynthesis and plant growth, Professor Toshinori Kinoshita, Dr. Yin Wang and co-workers at Nagoya University’s…
They regulate and coordinate the activity of groups of neurons that represent parts of information, which they then may transmit to other brain regions. If…
Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, together with an international team of scientists, has uncovered an important role for the protein…
When life on Earth was first getting started, simple molecules bonded together into the precursors of modern genetic material. A catalyst would have been…
The team, led by the late MBL senior scientist Stephen M. Highstein, discovered that sensory cells in the inner ear continuously transmit information on…
Some 20 years and a twist of fate later, today Haynes is defending her Ph.D. thesis in physiology at the University of Kentucky, where she's made a significant…
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered impaired neuronal activity in the parts of the brain associated with…
OMRF scientist Kenneth Miller, Ph.D., studied the function of a common protein (known as CaM Kinase II) in tiny roundworms called C. elegans. His research…
These physiological gymnastics would usually be influenced by leptin, the hormone that regulates body fat storage, metabolism and appetite. However, leptin has…
Researchers from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation (TiHo) are…
In order to track the movements of biological particles in a cell, scientists at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center have developed a…
Wikipedia lists 65 adjectives that botanists use to describe the shapes of plant leaves. In English (rather than Latin) they mean the leaf is lance-shaped,…
The element is called californium — Cf if you’re looking at the Periodic Table of Elements — and it’s what Florida State Professor Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt, the…
The proof of concept experiment is described in a paper published online March 23 by the journal Nature Chemical Biology.
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