Deciphering the defence strategy According to Jakobi, this research helps us understand better how our body is capable of combating bacterial infections. "If we can grasp this well, and we can specifically activate or deactivate the involved proteins through medication,…
A common soil dwelling bacterium appears to possess a sense of touch, researchers have shown. The microbe's ability to respond to subtle changes in its environment, as revealed in the journal PLOS ONE, could signal potential useful scientific, engineering and…
Julie Beale, left, and Sara Long, right, earned national accreditation for the UK Plant Disease and Diagnostic Laboratory in its 50th year. The lab serves farmers, foresters, landscapers and other plant experts and enthusiasts across Kentucky. UK Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab…
Researchers have decoded the chromosome-level genome of Houttuynia cordata, an important East Asian medicinal plant known for its strong flavor and wide pharmacological use. This species was found to be decaploid, containing ten sets of chromosomes, and has undergone multiple…
To demonstrate the framework, the team applied the pipeline to 709 chloroplast genomes from the plant order Poales. The analysis indicated that genomic diversity in this group is driven primarily by species-specific variation, a finding the authors report in the abstract…
Decoupling headspace gas, buffer chemistry and pH reveals that anaerobic gut fungi require bicarbonate beyond its buffering function, with low strain-specific thresholds restoring hydrogen production under nitrogen. The model strain Neocallimastix cameroonii showed limited metabolic activity in the first transfer…
This week, Louise Brown, the first person born after conception by in vitro fertilization (IVF), celebrates her 40th birthday. Thanks to assisted reproductive technologies like IVF and intracytoplasmic sperm injection and to new techniques developed in laboratory animals, researchers are able…
A new study published in BMC Medical Genomics reports that a small regulatory RNA molecule, microRNA-183-5p, is present at elevated levels in the blood of patients with the condition and appears to interfere with the bone-forming activity of skeletal stem…
On the cellular highway, motor proteins called dyneins rule the road. Dyneins "walk" along structures called microtubules to deliver cellular cargo, such as signaling molecules and organelles, to different parts of a cell. Without dynein on the job, cells cannot…
An organ-resolved proteomic study in mice maps shared and organ-specific host responses to disseminated Talaromyces marneffei infection.
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