Rhizobium is a type of gram-negative bacteria widely distributed in the soil. It can form a highly transformed symbiotic relationship with legumes, infect the roots of legumes, form nodules, and then fix molecular nitrogen in the air to form a Organi...
2020-11-02The light intensity in the natural environment usually fluctuates frequently and sharply in a short period of time, which is called fluctuating light intensity...
2020-11-02Abscisic acid (ABA), as one of the main plant hormones, participates in the growth and development of plants and the response to various biotic and abiotic stresses...
2020-11-02Smoking is a major risk factor for some complex diseases. Epigenetic changes, especially DNA methylation (DNAm) changes, are considered to play an important role in increasing the risk of disease...
2020-11-02In recent years, the research of Z-DNA (Z-DNA) has attracted attention, but there are still difficulties in observing it in cells. The main reason is the lack of a simple and reliable method to directly observe it....
2020-11-02Bacterial resistance genes are a new potential threat in the natural environment. The acquisition of resistance genes by bacteria will damage the effect of antibiotic treatment....
2020-11-02The Ministry of the Environment of Japan announced on October 30 that researchers at Hokkaido University have recently discovered the H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in the feces of wild birds in Hokkaido....
2020-11-02Although immune-based cancer treatment has achieved remarkable success, not everyone responds to these methods, and cancer recurrence also occurs...
2020-11-02Recently, a team led by Professor Massimiliano Mazzone (VIB-KU Leuven Cancer Biology Center) collaborated with Dr. Emanuele Berardi and Dr. Min Shang to reveal a new metabolic dialogue between inflammatory cells and muscle stem cells...
2020-11-02The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous changes in human mobility, which may change the spread of other infectious diseases...
2020-11-02Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) studied the role of immune response in the development of glaucoma in mice...
2020-11-02Recently, scientists at the Skoltech Institute have designed a new machine learning-based method to detect \"atrial fibrillation drivers\", which are small plaques in the heart muscle that are thought to cause the most common type of arrhyt...
2020-11-02According to a new study published in The Lancet, hypoglycemic drugs commonly used by patients with type 2 diabetes can protect the kidneys of patients with type 1 diabetes...
2020-11-02The nucleus accumbens of the brain plays a central role in the \"risk-reward\" circuit. Their operation is mainly based on three essential neurotransmitters: dopamine, which promotes desire; dopamine, which promotes desire...
2020-11-02In many countries including Japan, liver cancer caused by excessive accumulation of fat in the liver is increasing...
2020-11-02About half of all tumors have mutations in the gene p53, which is usually responsible for fighting cancer. Now, scientists at UT Southwest University have discovered a new role for p53 in fighting tumors: preventing retrotransposons or \"jumping...
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