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Researchers observes what exactly happens at beginning of possible endosy
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Endosymbiosis is a remarkable biological phenomenon in which one creature resides within another. Such an unconventional partnership is usually advantageous to both parties. Even in human bodies, we find evidence of such cohabitation: mitochondria, the cells' powerhouses, originated from an
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Arctic cloud ice formation is influenced by biological particles: Study
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Researchers have presented data from their studies that demonstrate the critical role that biological particles, such as pollen, spores, and bacteria, play in the development of ice in Arctic clouds.
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Fossil study gives insights into 12 million-year-old climatic past of UK's
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 22 (ANI): A decade-long study into unique rocks near a Derbyshire village has been uncovering the secrets of what the county and the Peak District might have looked like under a much warmer and wetter past.
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New cancer drug could be developed using mushroom that grows on insects: R
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) [US], October 19 (ANI): The Cordyceps mushroom is well known for its gruesome eating habits: it is well-known that its spores kill insects by infecting them, and the dead insects' flesh sprouts fully developed fruiting bodies of the Cordyceps fungus.
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How dormant bacteria calculate their return to life: The thinking undead
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
San Diego [US], October 7 (ANI): Some bacteria go into a dormant state where their life functions cease when exposed to hunger and stressful conditions. These cells, known as spores, can resist punishing extremes of heat, pressure, and even the harsh conditions of space by entering a profoun
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Pollen and spores could be used to remove pollutants from water
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 26 (ANI): With a simple treatment pollens and spores can be converted into tiny sponge-like particles that can grab on to pollutants and remove them from water, suggests a study.
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