153 articles from THURSDAY 23.9.2021
Sex and the symbiont: Can algae hookups help corals survive?
- ScienceDaily
- 21/9/23 00:15
Scientists have discovered that symbiotic single-celled algae that live inside of and feed corals can reproduce not only by mitosis, but also sexually. Encouraging sex in these algae can accelerate their evolution to produce strains better able to help reefs cope with climate change.
New avenue for study of diseases like multiple sclerosis
- ScienceDaily
- 21/9/23 00:15
A surprising discovery may offer a promising new direction in the study of multiple sclerosis and other diseases of hypomyelination -- when axons of neurons are not covered sufficiently in fatty sheaths (myelin), which disrupts communication between nerve cells.