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Nanodevices Show How Living Cells Change with Time, by Tracking from Inside

October 22, 2020
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Bath, UK — For the first time, scientists have introduced minuscule tracking devices directly into the interior of mammalian cells, giving an unprecedented peek into the processes that govern the beginning...

World First Study Shows Some Microorganisms can Bend the Rules of Evolution

October 15, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — In a world first Monash University scientists have discovered that HGT can bend the rules of evolution. The discovery is outlined in a study published today in PNAS, which...

How Dinosaur Research Can Help Medicine

August 26, 2020
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Bonn, Germany — The intervertebral discs connect the vertebrae and give the spine its mobility. The disc consists of a cartilaginous fibrous ring and a gelatinous core as a buffer. It has always been...

DNA Damage Triggers Reprogramming into Stem Cells

August 18, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — A joint research team from the National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB) in Japan, Huazhong Agricultural University in China, and the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic...

Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals Evolution of Mitochondrial Calcium Transporter

August 13, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — The system that regulates cellular calcium levels duplicated, generating two non-equivalent systems, some one billion years ago before fungi and animals diverged evolutionarily. The...

Evolutionary Assimilation of Foreign DNA in a New Host

August 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — All life is subject to evolution in the form of mutations that change the DNA sequence of an organism’s offspring, after which natural selection allows the ‘fittest’...

Oldest Enzyme in Cellular Respiration Isolated

August 10, 2020
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Frankfurt, Germany — In the first billion years, there was no oxygen on Earth. Life developed in an anoxic environment. Early bacteria probably obtained their energy by breaking down various substances...

Tinkering with Roundworm Proteins Offers Hope for Anti-Ageing Drugs

August 3, 2020
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Daejeon, South Korea — KAIST researchers have been able to dial up and down creatures’ lifespans by altering the activity of proteins found in roundworm cells that tell them to convert sugar...

‘Little Brain’ or Cerebellum Not So Little After All

August 3, 2020
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San Diego, CA — When we say someone has a quick mind, it may be in part thanks to our expanded cerebellum that distinguishes human brains from those of macaque monkeys, for example. Sometimes referred...

Researchers Discover Hybrid Fungus Involved in Lung Infections

July 20, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Aspergillus latus, a species of fungus previously found only in soil or plants, has been found for the first time in a hospital environment by an international group of researchers....

Green is More Than Skin-Deep for Hundreds of Frog Species

July 14, 2020
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Durham, NC — Frogs and toads are green for a very good reason – it makes them harder to see in their leafy environments. Good camouflage allows them to eat and not be eaten. But not all frogs...

Why are Offspring of Older Mothers Less Fit to Live Long and Prosper?

July 6, 2020
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Woods Hole, MA — The offspring of older mothers don’t fare as well as those of younger mothers, in humans and many other species. They aren’t as healthy, or they don’t live as long,...

Entry Point for Curbing the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Discovered

June 25, 2020
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Cologne, Germany — The team of Professor Tobias Bollenbach from the Institute for Biological Physics at the University of Cologne has published a study on a new approach to improving the effectiveness...

Effects from low-level concentrations of harmful chemicals preserved in three generations of fish

June 25, 2020
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Corvallis, OR — Fish exposed to very low levels of chemicals commonly found in waterways can pass the impacts on to future generations that were never directly exposed to the chemicals, according to...

New Light Shone on Inflammatory Cell Death Regulator

June 22, 2020
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Parkville, Australia — In a trio of studies published today in the journal Nature Communications, the team used advanced imaging to visualise key steps in the activation of MLKL, revealing previously...

From Bacteria to You: The Biological Reactions that Sustain Our Rhythms

June 11, 2020
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Kyoto, Japan — Every second of every day, countless biochemical reactions take place in our bodies’ cells. The organization of this complex system is the result of billions of years of evolution,...

We’re Not All Equal in the Face of Coronavirus

June 11, 2020
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Geneva, Switzerland — The genetic variability of immunity lies particularly in the genes of the HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigen) system. These genes produce HLA molecules that are positioned on the surface...

Genome Evolution Goes Digital

June 4, 2020
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Charlestown, MA — Dr. Alan Herbert from InsideOutBio describes ground-breaking research in a paper published online today by Royal Society Open Science. The study focuses on the digital genome that...

‘Unnecessary’ Genetic Complexity: A Spanner in the Works?

May 5, 2020
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Hamilton, ON — The massive international effort to map the entire human genome, completed in 2003, opened a new field we now know as personalised medicine. The breakthrough, which identified the...

Antibiotic Exposure can ‘Prime’ Single-Resistant Bacteria to Become Multidrug-Resistant

April 28, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Antibiotics save lives — but using them also helps antibiotic-resistant strains evolve and spread. Each year, antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect some 2.8 million people in the...

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