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| Research links national-level greenhouse gas emissions, warming and resulting economic damage Posted: 12 Jul 2022 11:13 AM PDT Study provides data on gains and losses attributable to individual countries, including the finding that a group from the world's leading national emitters of GHGs have caused $6 trillion in global economic losses through warming caused by their emissions from 1990 to 2014. |
| Successful heart xenotransplant experiments set protocol for pig-to-human organ transplantation Posted: 12 Jul 2022 11:13 AM PDT A team successfully transplanted two genetically engineered pig hearts into recently deceased humans in June and July, marking the latest advances toward addressing the nationwide organ shortage and developing a clinical protocol that would provide an alternative supply of organs for people with life-threatening heart disease. |
| Soil quality critical to help some U.S. crops weather heat stress from climate change Posted: 12 Jul 2022 11:13 AM PDT The results singled out growing-degree days as the most important climatic factor and water holding capacity as the most influential soil property for crop-yield variability. |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2022 11:13 AM PDT Researchers have found a new, dynamic protein structure in cells. |
| Protein folding in times of oxygen deficiency Posted: 12 Jul 2022 11:12 AM PDT Protein molecules require a defined shape in order to function. When they are created, their building blocks are therefore linked together in a very specific way. Researchers are now taking a closer look at a key step in this process and are investigating the effects of transient oxygen starvation on protein folding in plants. |
| Emotional patterns a factor in children's food choices Posted: 12 Jul 2022 11:12 AM PDT The emotional context in which eating occurs has been thought to influence eating patterns and diet, with studies finding negative emotions predict excessive calorie intake and poor diet quality. A research article discusses how children's unhealthy food choices, especially over weekends, are related to emotion. |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2022 11:12 AM PDT Purple sea urchins are munching their way through California's kelp forests at a speed and scale that have stunned scientists, fishermen and divers alike. But the kelp forests have long been home to red and purple urchins, so it's clear the three species can get along. Researchers sought to determine what factors disrupt this harmony. |
| Scientists identify mechanism responsible for fruit and seed development in flowering plants Posted: 12 Jul 2022 07:27 AM PDT Scientists identified a gene responsible for triggering plants to develop fruits and seeds. This finding may help agriculturists bypass pollination altogether for food production, which will be beneficial in these times of rising global temperatures and dwindling pollinator populations. |
| Study analyzes hepatitis E virus exposure in Iberian lynxes Posted: 12 Jul 2022 07:27 AM PDT Research results indicate that the level of virus exposure is higher among captive lynxes than those in the wild. |
| How stressed-out plants produce their own aspirin Posted: 12 Jul 2022 07:26 AM PDT Plants protect themselves from environmental hazards like insects, drought and heat by producing salicylic acid, also known as aspirin. A new understanding of this process may help plants survive increasing stress caused by climate change. |
| Habitat shifts affect brain structure in Amazonian butterflies Posted: 12 Jul 2022 07:26 AM PDT Habitat differences help determine changes in the nervous system of tropical butterflies, scientists have found. |
| Entombed together: Rare fossil flower and parasitic wasp make for amber artwork Posted: 11 Jul 2022 03:23 PM PDT Fossil research has revealed an exquisite merger of art and science: a long-stemmed flower of a newly described plant species encased in a 30-million-year-old tomb together with a parasitic wasp. |
| The best offense is a great defense for some carnivorous plants Posted: 11 Jul 2022 01:31 PM PDT Insect-eating plants have fascinated biologists for more than a century, but how plants evolved the ability to capture and consume live prey has largely remained a mystery. Now,scientists have investigated the molecular basis of plant carnivory and found evidence that it evolved from mechanisms plants use to defend themselves. |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2022 01:31 PM PDT The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers. |
| X-rays help researchers piece together treasured cellular gateway Posted: 11 Jul 2022 01:31 PM PDT After almost two decades of synchrotron experiments, scientists have captured a clear picture of a cell's nuclear pores, which are the doors and windows through which critical material in your body flows in and out of the cell's nucleus. These findings could lead to new treatments of certain cancers, autoimmune diseases and heart conditions. |
| Proof Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance decades ahead of his time Posted: 11 Jul 2022 11:32 AM PDT Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed 'decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of 'founder of genetics.'' So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th birthday of Mendel approaches on 20 July. |
| Sperm are masters of DNA packing Posted: 11 Jul 2022 11:32 AM PDT During sperm production, an enormous amount of DNA has to be packed into a very small space without breaking anything. A central role is played by certain proteins around which the DNA thread is wrapped -- the protamines. A recent study provides new insights into this important mechanism. |
| Researchers capture images of antibody attacking neuron receptor Posted: 11 Jul 2022 10:53 AM PDT Researchers have captured images of an auto-antibody bound to a nerve cell surface receptor, revealing the physical mechanism behind a neurological autoimmune disease. The findings could lead to new ways to diagnose and treat autoimmune conditions, the study authors said. |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2022 10:53 AM PDT While more and more pathogens have developed biofilms that protect them from being eradicated by antibiotics, fewer classes of antibiotics are being developed. Researchers decided to go in a different direction and investigated a phytochemical derived from cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli that breaks down the biofilm. |
| Worms as model for personalized medicine Posted: 11 Jul 2022 10:53 AM PDT Using four unrelated strains of the microscopic nematode C. elegans originating from different parts of the world, a group of worm biologists have developed a model system to study individual differences in metabolism. This advancement represents a potentially important step toward 'personalized' or 'precision' medicine, a relatively new discipline that tailors dietary advice and disease treatment to an individual's own genome sequence. |
| Hidden genes may be tapped for new antibiotics Posted: 11 Jul 2022 10:53 AM PDT Bioscientists learn to trigger 'silent' gene clusters in bacteria that could be rich sources of new antibiotic candidates. |
| Bomb detectors picking up more blue whale songs in Indian Ocean Posted: 11 Jul 2022 08:18 AM PDT The good news is, pygmy blue whales appear to be thriving in the Indian Ocean. But not-so-good is that climate change may be threatening their food sources. |
| Paleobiology: Complex family relationships Posted: 11 Jul 2022 08:18 AM PDT An international team of researchers has managed to classify fossils of one of the most species-rich fish groups into a family tree for the first time. |
| Pocket gophers are underground root 'farmers' Posted: 11 Jul 2022 08:18 AM PDT Pocket gophers are known for living solitary, underground lives, eating roots in North and Central American grasslands. Now, researchers have found that pocket gophers keep up with the high energy demands of their burrowing lifestyle by 'farming' roots that grow into their tunnels. They calculate that these roots supply 20 to 60 percent of the gophers' need for daily calories. |
| Easy and inexpensive method for linking other molecules to DNA sequences with desired functions Posted: 11 Jul 2022 06:52 AM PDT The development of DNA-/RNA-based drugs, like COVID-19 vaccines, is exploding. Current methods are costly, but researchers are finding effective and inexpensive method for producing stable, modified DNA sequences for these modern-type drugs. |
| Education system 'neglecting the importance of plants' Posted: 11 Jul 2022 06:51 AM PDT People are becoming 'disconnected from the botanical world' at a time when plants could help solve global environmental problems, warn a group of research scientists. They say the problem has been exacerbated by schools and universities reducing their teaching of basic plant science, including plant identification and ecology. They describe a self-accelerating cycle which risks '...the extinction of botanical education,' where biology is taught predominantly by people with research interests in animal science. |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2022 09:36 AM PDT Scientists revealed new research based on a cache of fossils that contains the brain and nervous system of a half-billion-year-old marine predator from the Burgess Shale called Stanleycaris. Stanleycaris belonged to an ancient, extinct offshoot of the arthropod evolutionary tree called Radiodonta, distantly related to modern insects and spiders. These findings shed light on the evolution of the arthropod brain, vision, and head structure. |
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