von Thomas Fester | Feb. 21, 2017 | Climate Change, News
Why do we need a food climate tax? Food production is an important source of greenhouse gases with meat and dairy products as the most important areas. This impact of agriculture will even increase in the coming decades given rising consumption of agricultural...
von Thomas Fester | Feb. 20, 2017 | Climate Change, Ecology, News
Climate change and life in the High Arctic Climate change has resulted in particularly strongly rising temperatures in the High Arctic. How is this affecting ecosystems in this area? To find answers, Descamps et al., have summarized data from 33 publications covering...
von Thomas Fester | Feb. 4, 2017 | Biochemistry, Molecular Structures, News
Biochemistry The structure of a pancreatic K+-channel has been elucidated using Cryo-EM. The core channel (upper gif) consists of four identical subunits and is given in full colour, with each subunit in a different colour. A regulatory subunit (lighter colour) is...
von Thomas Fester | Feb. 4, 2017 | Anthropology, Molecular Medicine, Natural History, News
Sexual relations between modern humans and Neanderthals Sexual relations and resulting gene transfer between Neanderthals and modern humans have been reported repeatedly. A new study from Pimenoff and colleagues now suggests that we not only inherited some of their...
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...
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