"Did you know whales are born tail first? They enter their water world being able to swim from day dot. From the moment they’re born, their first instinct is to swim to the surface for air.
While most enjoy the comforts of hanging out in mum’s tummy until she reaches warm northern Australian waters, some just can’t wait to enter the big blue.
Quick cell biology question. If you might know somebody who knows, could I get a boost? :boost_requested:
I think I've heard of techniques where you can replace a cell's DNA with the DNA of another cell, and have the recipient cell behave / develop like the donor. I also think I remember there being limits on how closely related the two cells have to be in order for this to work.
Does anybody know what the limits of this technique are? Or how to learn more about it generally? I don't even know what to search for. :)
More generally, I'm trying to get a sense for how much of a cell's behavior is determined by the gene sequence vs. the cellular mechanisms that interpret it.
"Study unlocks potential breakthrough in Type 1 diabetes treatment
For the over 8 million people around the globe living with Type 1 diabetes, getting a host immune system to tolerate the presence of implanted insulin-secreting cells could be life-changing.
Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh and collaborators identified new biomaterial formulations that could help turn the page on Type 1 diabetes treatment, opening the door to a more sustainable, long-term, self-regulating way to handle the disease."
As requested by Reid Alderson, ChemEx is now in #NMROnline!
We would like to thank D. Flemming Hansen (@dflemminghansen) for providing the data, and Guillaume Bouvignies for his support with the ChemEx integration.
Dropping #evolution from the science curriculum is like dropping arithmetic from mathematics curriculum. Very few things made sense to me in #biology until I learnt about evolution.
On top of that, this sort of nonsense was always something that happened in other countries. I'm very sad to see it reach #India.
People who know about plant life cycles: what is this?
At first I thought it might be some kind of spider web, or insect eggs, or cocoon, but zooming in it looks like plain old bubbles. Do grasses blow bubbles as some part of their growth?
About one stalk in fifty seems to have this. But it's only on the prarie grass, not the St Augustine grass of the lawn.
Scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in the effort to slow the aging process with a novel technique that increased the lifespans of yeast cells by a whopping 82 percent, reports a new study
I did a double take when I read the title of the paper: "Ultrafast reversible self-assembly of living tangled matter"
Then I did another (a triple take?) when I saw the video. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03384 #Biology#LifeFindsAWay