Stilbenoids are compounds produced by plants to fight infections, and in
human biology appear to affect some of the signaling pathways that allow vitamin D to do its job, researchers said.
Not exact matches
New tests based on
human biology can predict many adverse reactions that animal tests fail to do, and could, for example, have detected the risk signals produced by Vioxx, which in animal studies
appeared to be safe, and even beneficial to the heart.
In a report that
appears in PLOS
BIOLOGY, Dr. Hugo Bellen and his colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital and BCM, and Dr. Chao Tong, at the Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell
Biology, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, find that mutations of
human homologs (genes that carry out similar functions) of cacophony and its partner straightjacket (Cacna1a and Cacna2d2 respectively) cause defects in autophagy in neurons.
«These fluorescence microscopy studies establish that the zinc spark occurs in
human egg
biology, and that can be observed outside of the cell,» said Professor Tom O'Halloran, a co-senior author and director of Northwestern University's Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, of a study that
appeared in Scientific Reports.
The word «microbiome»
appears so often in biologists» current vocabulary, virtually every aspect of
human biology seems to bear a viable link to it.
Last but not least, I would like to thank everybody for a lesson in
biology:
humans, homo sapiens,
appear to be no different than rabbits in regulating their population dynamics and resource consumption.