Bacteria fight and feast with the same tool
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Many types of bacteria produce a protein complex that injects toxins into neighbouring cells to eliminate competitors. For the first time, researchers at ETH Zurich and Eawag discovered that these killer bacteria also use this weapons to feed on their neighbours.
The ability to precisely predict movements is essential not only for humans and animals, but also for many AI applications — from autonomous driving to robotics. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now discovered that artificial neural networks can perform this task better when trained with biological data from early visual system development.
University of Missouri study challenges assumptions about biodiversity near Earth’s first reef systems.
With support from a three-year, $1.85 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (“Role of TBX2 in the establishment of the Prostate Cancer Pre-Metastatic Niche (PMN) in the Bone”), Srinivas Nandana, Ph.D., and Manisha Tripathi, Ph.D., from the Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry at the TTUHSC School of Medicine seek to advance the understanding of prostate cancer metastasis by investigating the role of TBX2 in establishing the prostate cancer premetastatic niche in bone.
Capturing the behaviour of animals in their natural habitat with high detail? Researchers from the Konstanz-based Cluster of Excellence “Collective Behaviour” developed a unique outdoor camera system to measure 3D movements and postures of wild birds. The system is mobile, robust to field conditions, and adaptable to a wide range of experiments – and species.
A recent study reveals that the Saimaa ringed seal is evolutionally much more differentiated than previously known. Indeed, researchers suggest that instead of a subspecies, it should be considered its own independent species.