NIP in Biological News

New greenhouse gas identified

... potential to contribute significantly to future greenhouse warming, but because its production has not yet reached high levels there is still time to nip this potential contributor in the bud, according to an international team of researchers. Scientists at MIT, the Scripps Institution of Oceanograph...

Arsenic and new rice

... and which have already been shown to function as arsenite channels in these other organisms. Bienert's team put the plant genes coding for different nip transporters into yeast cells in order to test the cells for arsenic sensitivity. The researchers found that the growth of yeast containing certain pl...

What's bugging locusts?

...supply necessary for supporting the population starts to dwindle. Starved for essential nutrients such as protein and salt, young locust "nymphs" will nip at each other. Those under siege react by running from the aggressors. Others get jittery and simply seek to put space between them and any locust app...

Alleged 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico much, much older than thought

...any paleontologists have withheld judgment on the alleged footprints, awaiting good geological dates, Feinberg said. "With this study, we're trying to nip any misrepresentation in the bud." ...

Bacterial protein mimics host to cripple defenses

...s, animals, and people. That mechanism, called programmed cell death (PCD), causes a cell to commit suicide. PCD helps organisms contain infections, nip potential cancers in the bud, and get rid of old or unneeded cells. However, runaway PCD leads to everything from unseemly spots on tomatoes to Parkin...

Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show

...d plant species were being grown in the vicinity," said Banuelos. He noted that every morning trained workers swept through the fields to literally nip any flowers in the bud, and that netting and buried chicken wire were used to keep wildlife away from the plants. "One of the challenges in develop...