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Research: Polarity proteins in grass shape efficient "breathing" pores
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Grasses have "respiratory pores" (called stomata) that open and close to regulate the uptake of carbon dioxide for photosynthesis on the one hand and water loss through transpiration on the other.
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Research throws light on secret language of photosynthesis
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scientists have been perplexed by the signals plants transmit to start photosynthesis, the process of converting sunlight into sugars, for decades. Academics from UC Riverside have finally cracked these earlier enigmatic communications.
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Researchers reveal what keeps bones in good function
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
What allows bones to maintain their capacity for self-renewal and health? Insights into the essential role of non-collagen protein compounds and how they support bone cells' ability to respond to external load have been found by a team from Charite Berlin.c
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Researchers decode the secret language of photosynthesis
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. UC Riverside researchers have now decoded those previously opaque signals.
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Researchers suggest antibiotic that works against multidrug-resistant bact
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The use of antibiotics is essential in the management of numerous bacterial illnesses. Researchers have created analogues of a novel antibiotic that works well against bacteria that are multidrug resistant, opening a new front in the battle against these illnesses.
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Researchers discover new mechanism to boost RNA therapies
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have identified how biological pacemaker cells--cells that control your heartbeat--can "fight back" against therapies to biologically correct abnormal heartbeat rates. The research also uncovered a new way to boost the effectivenes
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Researchers reveal how inflammation is regulated
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The regulation of inflammation has been better understood thanks to research from Trinity College Dublin scientists. Recent research has revealed that a crucial immunological alarm protein that was previously thought to slow down the immune response really has the opposite effect.
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Study reveals changes in cholesterol levels in cell membrane
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Despite its health risk when its blood levels are too high, cholesterol is a vital part of the membrane that surrounds every human cell. Researchers revealed new insights into how cells achieve cholesterol homeostasis within the cell membrane.
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Researchers are devising a way to track how fish moves from the water to t
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers are devising a way to track and measure how fish, being one of the world's most-traded commodities, moves from the water to the plate within a country.
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Researchers discover that women are more likely to get Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Scientists have identified a clue to the molecular origin of Alzheimer's disease--a clue that may also explain why women are more susceptible to the disease.
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Study explains why women are at greater risk to suffer from Alzheimer's
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a study published in Science Advances, researchers discovered that the brains of women had significantly higher amounts of a modified immune protein which could signal the existence of Alzheimer's.
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Key to new lupus treatment lies in blood: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new study suggests that restoring the balance of a protein in the blood could be a promising treatment option for systemic lupus erythematosus, also known as lupus, an untreatable autoimmune disease.
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