A protein called “clathrin,” which is found in every human cell and plays a critical role in transporting materials within them, also plays a key role in cell…
After last year's accidental discovery of “zombie”-like bees infected with a fly parasite, SF State researchers are conducting an elaborate experiment to learn…
High salt intake has long been considered a risk factor, but not every type of high blood pressure is associated with high salt intake. This has puzzled…
Competition is a strong driving force of evolution for organisms of all sizes: Those individuals best equipped to obtain resources adapt and reproduce, while…
The researchers examined a signaling pathway called TOR that the cells use to gauge nutrition levels and stress, said study senior author Dr. Julian A….
Some six years ago scientific textbooks had to be updated because of the surprising discovery made by the research group led by Frank Keppler that plants…
Bacteria have ways of communicating with each other, and scientists have now identified a new signaling system that, when there is a critical mass of bacteria…
“Call it color-coding your food,” said Duke biologist Sönke Johnsen. He explained that the animals might be using their ultraviolet and blue-light sensitivity…
Sinking through the inky ocean, it would seem that there is little light at depth: but you'd be wrong. 'In the mesopelagic realm [200 m] bioluminescence [light…
Only about 1 percent of the human genome contains gene regions that code for proteins, raising the question of what the rest of the DNA is doing. Scientists…
Today, an international team of researchers reveal that much of what has been called ‘junk DNA’ in the human genome is actually a massive control panel with…
The researcher is Saul Yedgar, who is the Walter and Greta Stiel Professor of Heart Studies at the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada at the Hebrew…
The National Human Genome Research Institute today announced the results of a five-year international study of the regulation and organization of the human…
Among the errors found in small cell lung cancers, the team of scientists, including those at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, found an alteration in a…
Researchers conducting the study were surprised to see that the injected cells even acted like “missionaries,” converting existing belly fat cells into…
New agents are needed urgently, and the quest for them is also being extended to the ant world. It is here that Würzburg biologists have now made a new…
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