1+ week, 1+ day ago   (193+ words) The tiny helpers of marine sponges also use organic amino acids image: Figure 1: The bright yellow elephant ear sponge, called Ianthella basta, can be found across coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Ocean including the Great Barrier Reef off the coast…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (504+ words) Communication between cells in plants, animals and humans takes place via specialised connecting structures. An international team led by biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and involving the University of Tübingen has now discovered how the regulation of very…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (49+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Aurantiochytrium sp. strain L3W, cultured in liquid pickle seasoning waste for the production of the omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA. (Satoshi Nakai / Hiroshima University) Satoshi Nakai / Hiroshima University News organizations may use this image with proper attribution for…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (181+ words) image:. Time-lapse confocal images of a liposome showing bleb formation and expansion. view more A system of artificial cells to study cell morphogenesis As Miyazaki explains, "by reconstructing membrane morphogenesis from purified proteins, we showed that local interactions within the…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (61+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Student sampling microbes from a Christmas tree. Giulia Ghisleni and Antonia Bruno Credit must be given to the creator. Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted. No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted. More on…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (194+ words) A long-term evolutionary experiment using a self-replicating RNA-protein system resulted in evolution toward extinction. This finding suggests that the conditions allowing primitive replicators to survive at the origin of life are severely limited Recent research showed that an artificially constructed…...