Stealth Worms May Improve Insect Pest Control
...erate zones, but this is not true. We're trying to unveil the mystery of nematode diversity in the tropic regions." In Jordan, she and her colleagues are surveying insect-parasitic nematodes from soil-inhabiting insects and other habitats. The International Arid Lands Consortium, which includes participati...Have a taste for fat? Yes! A sensor in the mouth promotes preference for fatty foods
...ediated by oral delivery of lipids. These findings unveil one potential pathway mediating fat taste. The data suggest that an alteration in the fat perception system might increase obesity risk through feeding dysregulation. In an accompanying commentary, Nada Abumrad writes that this report provides in...Swiss researchers develop all-in-one remote control gene expression tool
...he EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) unveil a powerful new tool that will facilitate genetic research and open up new avenues for the clinical treatment of genetic disease. The researchers have combined several gene manipulation techniques and incorporated them into a single lentiviral vecto...