von Thomas Fester | Feb 4, 2017 | Molecular Cytology, Molecular Medicine, News
Stem cells are crucial for organ formation and maintenance Complex organs, like the liver or our stomach are formed and maintained by so-called stem cells; cells which may repeatedly divide and with progeny being able to differentiate into the final cell type needed...
von Thomas Fester | Feb 3, 2017 | News, Soil Biology
Beneficial interactions of plants and fungi While there are many fungi attacking and damaging plants there is also a large number of beneficial ones. In fact plants and fungi make perfect partners complementing each other. Plant organisms have almost unlimited access...
von Thomas Fester | Feb 3, 2017 | Biochemistry, Molecular Cytology, News
Importance of the endodermis in root transport processes The outer, absorptive and metabolic part of a root is separated from its central transportation unit (the central cylinder) by a tight border: the endodermis. This layer of cells has wax-like substances embedded...
von Thomas Fester | Feb 1, 2017 | Some basic facts
In contrast to views from the still-to-be-established US-ministry for alternative truth earth is not flat. It is not a perfect sphere either, but rather something like a flattened ball. Here I will not detail recent satellite measurements, but rather go back in time...
von Thomas Fester | Jan 31, 2017 | Ecology, News
What can you do when your biodiversity experiment has inadvertently been flooded by a nearby river? Well, you take it as an opportunity and look at recovery rates. This is at least what people did in the Jena biodiversity experiment which comprises plots with 1 to 16...
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