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Mechanism for the captation of nutrients in plants- unknown to date

...ecific transporter, or even if one transporter can recognise 3 or 4 different substances, an infinity of such transporters would be required. The conclusion of this research is that, while not discarding the existence of specific transporters in plasma membranes, their number and relevance is considerably inf...

Getting close to nature is good for you

... exchange expertise could create new policies that recognise the interdependence between healthy people and healthy ecosystems, they conclude. ...

Bees solve complex colour puzzles

...ogy says: "Although we knew that bees were able to recognise flowers under different global lights, we didn't k...the darkness of a cinema. Far more difficult is to recognise the surface or object under multiple lights simultaneously, since adapting to the scene's average co...

MRSA use amoeba to spread, new research shows

... "Infection control policies for hospitals should recognise the role played by amoeba in the survival of MRSA, and evaluate control procedures accordingly," said Professor Mike Brown from the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University of Bath. "Until now this source of MRSA has been totally un...

Alternatives to the use of nitrate as a fertiliser

...hnique, two new antibodies have been produced that recognise the enzymes of these plants and of other plant species. The results show that the contents of the GS and GDH enzymes in the root tissues of the different varieties of pea are increased when ammoniacal fertiliser is applied and, this increment is rela...

Vampire bats recognise their prey's breathing

...ampire bats of the species Desmodus rotondus could recognise recorded human breathing sounds much better than h... their prey in the same way as humans use voice to recognise each other. In a study conducted by Udo Groeger and Lutz Wiegrebe from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Unive...

Mapping the protein world

...ves us a push to advance the software's ability to recognise and distinguish different types of macromolecular objects, for example DNA, and to improve the automated generation of structural models. ARP/wARP has made the life of structural biologists worldwide a lot easier and will do even more so once the new...

Smell of success for nanobiosensors

...ses 1,000 different proteins to allow the brain to recognise 10,000 different smells. While the SPOT-NOSED p...software tools necessary for an electronic nose to recognise smells ?the role played by the brain in the olfactory system. In this sense, new high accuracy elect...

Too mellow for our predatory world

...tame species into the wild, animals are trained to recognise and cope with predators. But in most cases it is v...at while marine iguanas are capable of learning to recognise predators they are unable to efficiently increase their flight initiation distance. This means that ...

Molecular 'signature' protects cells from viruses

...s Department of Clinical Pharmacology. 'They often recognise the alien RNA and set off the alarm: for example, they then produce what is known as the beta interferon, thereby activating specific killer cells. They also initiate the cell's suicide programme ?apoptosis. The viruses cannot then continue to breed....

New findings could lead to vaccine for severe malaria

...immune as their defence system gradually starts to recognise the parasite's proteins. When the placenta is formed, however, a new environment is introduced with a different set of receptors. This means that a new growth niche is made available to a subpopulation of the parasites. Earlier studies have suggeste...

Baby fish 'smell their way home'

...ut the question was whether they could use them to recognise what the home reef smelt like, when they left it only a day or so after hatching." The team exposed tiny fish larvae in a tank to pure streams of water from four different reefs. To their amazement, within minutes a surprisingly high percentage o...

New research shows that flu is a trigger of heart attacks

...mportant killer in cardiac patients. If people can recognise that the flu vaccine has specific cardioprotective effects, then high-risk people will be more likely to make sure that they receive the influenza vaccine every year. We know from our other research that one in three people with heart disease do not ...

Scientists discover rare 'gene-for-gene' interaction that helps bacteria kill their host

... which is the fast-acting battery of defences that recognise and kill microbes to prevent infections from occurring. "Some remarkable discoveries have been made using insects that have subsequently allowed important advances in understanding how the human immune system works." As part of their innate imm...

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