Researchers reveal 3-D structure of bullet-shaped virus with potential to fight cancer, HIV

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

6 hours ago | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using cryo-electron microscopy and advanced image-processing methods, UCLA researchers have developed a model of how the potentially therapeutic vesicular stomatitis virus assembles.

Engineering bacterial cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

6 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two teams of Oxford University researchers led by Professors Judith Armitage and David Stuart have made the first steps towards being able to engineer a bacterial cell that can sense and respond to novel ...

Resistant wheat goes for the gut to protect against Hessian flies

Biology / Biotechnology

19 hours ago | not rated yet | 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Resistant wheat plants stave off attacks by Hessian fly larvae by essentially destroying the fly's midgut and its ability to absorb nutrients, according to a study by Purdue University and the U.S. Department ...

Will earlier springs throw nature out of step?

Biology / Ecology

8 hours ago | 1 / 5 (1) | 1

The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a study published today (9 February 2010) in the scientific journal Global Change Biology.

Biologist solves mystery of tropical grasses' origin

Biology / Plants & Animals

23 hours ago | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Around 30 to 40 million years ago, grasses on Earth underwent an epic evolutionary upheaval. An assemblage capitalized on falling levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide by engineering an internal mechanism to concentrate the ...