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Sudden change in social status triggers genetic response in male fish, study finds

...rab subordinate male cichlid will begin physically transforming into a colorful dominant male as soon as he notice...get bigger, they crank out more and more hormones, transforming the male from doormat to dominant within 10 minutes. In fact, laboratory analysis confirmed that...

University of Nevada, Reno research team discovers hormone that causes malaria mosquito to urinate

...rm, methoprene causes it to grow larger instead of transforming into a moth, enhancing the pest's ability to devastate crops. "It's not a great way to sell an insecticide to a farmer," Schooley said. "Most money in pesticide development is in making insecticides for pests which attack crops." This is what lead...

New complete muscle grown in the lab

...hemselves on the scaffold, with the myoblast cells transforming into aligned and elongated muscle fiber tubes and the endothelial cells organizing themselves in tubes nestled between the myoblasts. By adding fibroblast cells to the scaffold, the researchers were able to significantly boost the growth of the bloo...

New method shows it is possible to grow bone for grafts within a patient's body

...ent cells which, like marrow cells, are capable of transforming into the different types of skeletal tissue. So Shastri and his collaborators decided to create the bioreactor space just under this outer layer. They created the space by making a tiny hole in the periosteum and injecting saline water underneath. T...

UCLA cancer researchers shake loose hidden biomarker

...ood-borne immunotherapies to access the biomarker, transforming it from a hidden target into an exposed one. "In prostate cancer cells, PSMA is expressed in the apical region of the cell membrane, which blood can't reach, so injection of immunotherapy into the bloodstream is not effective," said Rajasekaran, als...

Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra

...ed foxes rippled through entire island ecosystems, transforming the vegetation from lush grasslands to scrubby, low-growing tundra. It turns out that the nutrient-poor volcanic soils of the Aleutian archipelago can only support dense grasslands if they receive regular doses of fertilizer in the form of bird drop...

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