Tag: "trickery" at biology news
In the sea slug's defense against lobsters, confusion is key
...n that such chemical defenses can involve modes of trickery
that had not previously been appreciated as components of chemical defense. When attacked by predatory spiny lobsters, sea slugs (also known as sea hares) release an inky secretion, termed ink and opaline, from a pair of glands. The new findings sho...
Grabbing addiction by the tail
...an scientists have developed some clever molecular trickery
that is helping to reduce the drug cravings of addicted rats. One of the problems in addiction is that neurons in some parts of the brain lose glutamate receptors from the cell surface, and those receptors are important for communication between neur...
'Exercise pill' switches on gene that tells cells to burn fat
...ogy 2007 in Washington, DC, is that such metabolic trickery
will lead to a new approach to new treatment and prevention of human metabolic syndrome. Sometimes called syndrome X, this consists of obesity and the often dire health consequences of obesity: high blood pressure, high levels of fat in the blood, he...
Yale biologists 'trick' viruses into extinction
...of pesticide use." Turner believes that similar trickery
might be used against human viruses like HIV. He notes that HIV recognizes the T-cells it infects by CD4 molecules on the cell surface, but it then requires functions of the cell nucleus to reproduce. Current anti-HIV therapies are designed to mainta...