Dormancy is a survival strategy for many organisms that involves suppressing development and reproduction for a period of time to reduce energy consumption in unfavorable environments. In some insects, reproductive dormancy ...
Plants & Animals
May 23, 2023
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Reversing osteoporosis could one day be as easy as taking a pill.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 23, 2023
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Despite its functionality, plastic could be posing a threat not only to the environment but to human health.
Environment
Jun 28, 2022
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New work led by Carnegie's Zhiyong Wang untangles a complex cellular signaling process that underpins plants' ability to balance expending energy on growth and defending themselves from pathogens. These findings, published ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have overturned conventional wisdom on the workings of vital hormone receptors within cells, a finding that could boost drug development for diabetes and related ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 30, 2021
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A biologist at RIKEN has discovered the way in which steroid signaling regulates the breakdown of sugar molecules in fruit flies so as to provide the energy larvae need to enter the pupal stage. This finding could have much ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 18, 2020
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Researchers have developed a method to spur the production of new antibiotic or antiparasitic compounds hiding in the genomes of actinobacteria, which are the source of drugs such as actinomycin and streptomycin and are known ...
Biochemistry
Jun 25, 2020
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Abnormal levels of stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol are linked to a variety of mental health disorders, including depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). MIT researchers have now devised a way ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 13, 2020
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In animals, releasing eggs in a timely manner is vital to maximize the chances of successful fertilization.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 3, 2020
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A group of researchers of the Institute of Pharmacology at the Medical University of Vienna in collaboration with the University of Vienna and different institutions in Australia, has shown that a certain peptide hormone ...
Biochemistry
Dec 17, 2019
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