8+ hour, 5+ min ago  (28+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! More on this News Release A user-friendly software suite for DNA structure generation and analysis...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago  (54+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Credit must be given to the creator. More on this News Release Some beluga whales appear to recognize themselves in a mirror, per a case study of captive whales which may provide the first evidence of mirror…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (418+ words) Research uncovers how viruses target key microbes that drive carbon cycling in the dark Viruses play a far more active role in Earth's carbon cycle than previously understood, according to new research that reveals how they infect and control microbes…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (37+ words) Cook Inlet belugas (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Cook Inlet belugas swimming in northern Cook Inlet, near Anchorage, Alaska. Credit must be given to the creator. More on this News Release UW researchers decipher beluga calls to bolster conservation efforts...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (33+ words) Bringing together the tools to harness the potential of microbial diversity (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Jovana De Biasio Cvorovic More on this News Release Bringing together the tools to harness the potential of microbial diversity...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (172+ words) Protein structures (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! An almost perfect match: Two protein subunit structures, one from a gut bacterium and one from a marine relative, overlaid on top of each other. The striking overlap reveals how conserved this protein is across…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (103+ words) The complex sugars in brown algae, such as these pictured during fieldwork in Roscoff by co-author Nicole von Possel, are among the hardest to break down by bacteria in the ocean, which makes them important for carbon storage. Marine relatives…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (182+ words) image: RESEARCHERS EVALUATED THE EFFECTS OF THE BNAC3. BOR1 GENE ON PLANT GROWTH AND GRAIN YIELD OF B. NAPUS view more Credit: Dr. Sheliang Wang Adequate boron (B) supply is essential for optimal growth and yield formation in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.). With boron-deficient soils…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (844+ words) By monitoring these chromosomal structures over many timescales, MIT researchers found that chromatin helps bring genes closer to their regulatory elements image: On the left is a snapshot of single histone molecules (red) inside a cell nucleus (dotted line). On…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (118+ words) (A) Fluorescence microscopy observation of V. dahliae hyphae after coincubation with synthesized RNA or s RNA. Green fluorescence represents fluorescein-labeled RNAs, and red fluorescence represents Cy3-labeled s RNAs. UTP was used as a negative control. (B) Model of endocytic pathway for exogenous RNAs…...