Articles with Topic: "biodiversity"

12/09/2022 - biodiversity

Tricking the Bees: How Some Flowers Cheat

João Aguiar

Flowers usually provide their pollinators with food, such as nectar. But some flowers trick their pollinators into pollinating without offering any food. Continue

• What are the colours that the bees recognized as cheaters?
• What Heinrich suggested in his hypothesis?

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06/02/2023 - biodiversity

A Blessing in Disguise: From Fish Venom to Novel Medicines

Rodrigo Disner

Every day, scientists make discoveries that help improve human health and wellness. Many medicines are discovered in nature, like toxins from animals. Continue

• Where can we find more TnP to make medicine?
• How does this venom affect our body to reduce inflammation?

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21/05/2020 - biodiversity

Agrobacterium: Soil Microbe, Plant Pathogen, and Natural Genetic Engineer

Ryan Weir

Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Agrobacterium for short) is a single-celled microbe and natural genetic engineer. Continue

• What are the natural defence mechanisms that plants employ to protect...
• What initially sparked your interest in studying agrobacterium and...

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23/05/2022 - biodiversity

How Do Bacteria “See” Molecules Inside Themselves?

David Hiller, Andrew Knappenberger

RNA, like its close cousin DNA, is used to store information in the cell. Unlike DNA, RNA is really good at folding up into interesting shapes, which also makes it good at lots of other important jobs. Continue

• How many years have you been studying this type of science?

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