Biology Resources (page 21)

Why do we have to eat? - This simple question leads to lots of discoveries which are hidden in our body. Organisms like us (well, not just us - this covers bacteria in our guts to bi...

Metastasis is a fundamental aspect that highlights the difference of cancer form other conditions There are basically the following subfamilies of proteases with d...

Speciation can be defined as a process by which alterations in the gene pool of segments within a population is achieved either due to prezygotic or post zygotic mechanisms that ult...

WFDC1/ps20 as a regulator of immunity and growth within the prostate. prostrate stromal 20(ps20) encoded by WFDC1, is a 24kDa secreted factor containing the highly conserved whey-a...

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a revolutionary new method for identifying and characterizing antibiotics, an advance that could lead to the disco...

Currently, there are around 800,000 people living with dementia (brain disorder) in the UK. Dementia is an umbrella term used to define a range of disease symptoms i.e. memory loss, d...

Evolution is not a forward thinking process, it is a series of continuous and infinitesimal changes to form in response to current environmental stimuli, what provides the selecti...

Biology, to put it simply, is the study of life. It has to do with finding out facts about all living things, which are basically categorized into plants and animals. Why do we nee...

In a recent issue of 'Wired' magazine, Daphne Koller (cofounder of the online-learning platform Coursera) expressed concern about the lack of educational capacity in many countries. ...

Background Stomata are tiny pores in plant leaves that regulate gas and water exchange between the plant and its environment. Abscisic acid and ethylene are two well-known elicitor...