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Study shows animal mating choices more complex than once thought
Jun 08, 2009 |
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When female tiger salamanders choose a mate, it turns out that size does matter - tail size that is - and that's not the only factor they weigh.
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Study reveals how a common virus eludes the immune system
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Viruses have numerous tricks for dodging the immune system. In the September 7, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, Stagg et al. reveal a key detail in one of these stratagems, identifying a protein that enables cyto-m ...
A Viral Cloaking Device: Biologists show how Human Cytomegalovirus hides from the immune system
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Jul 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Viruses achieve their definition of success when they can thrive without killing their host. Now, biologists Pamela Bjorkman and Zhiru Yang of the California Institute of Technology have uncovered how one ...
The genetic basis of inbreeding avoidance in house mice
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Nov 08, 2007 |
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A new study appearing online on November 8th in Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press, offers new insight into how wild house mice avoid mating with their relatives. The mice rely on a diverse set of specially evolve ...
Scientists reveal how mice recognise each other
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Nov 05, 2007 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered that mice rely on a special set of proteins to recognise each other.
Immune cell communication key to hunting viruses,
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Immunologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have used nanotechnology to create a novel "biosensor" to solve in part a perplexing problem in immunology: how immune system cells ...
Female mice can identify inbred males by their scent
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Apr 18, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that female mice avoid mating with inbred males by ‘sensing’ the diversity of a protein type in their urine.
New findings on immune system in amphibians
Jun 19, 2008 |
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Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes produce proteins that are crucial in fighting pathogen assault. Researchers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental ...
Contraceptive pill influences partner choice
Aug 13, 2008 |
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The contraceptive pill may disrupt women's natural ability to choose a partner genetically dissimilar to themselves, research at the University of Liverpool has found.
Cellular Pathway Yields Potential New Weapon in Vaccine Arsenal
Dec 26, 2006 |
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When a cell has to destroy any of its organelles or protein aggregates, it envelops them in a membrane, forming an autophagosome, and then moves them to another compartment, the lysosome, for digestion.
Workhorse immune molecules lead secret lives in the brain
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Mar 30, 2009 |
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Molecules assumed to be in the exclusive employ of the immune system have been caught moonlighting in the brain - with a job description apparently quite distinct from their role in immunity.
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