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Our cell's “protein factory” can decrease fats to promote lifespan

Organisms face stress daily, and generally, these stressors have some form of negative effect on our physiology. For example, exposure to thermal stress (elevated heat) increases body temperatures, causes loss of cognitive function, and mood changes. Humans have adapted several different methods for dealing with... click to read more

Ryo Higuchi-Sanabria | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

aging

stress response

stress

endoplasmatic reticulum

lipids

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Sep 18, 2020

How plants protect themselves from salt stress

We often think of genes as a static piece of information in DNA that determines different physical aspects of life. I have blue eyes because I have the gene(s) for blue eyes. However, while DNA is important in determining such features, it's the proteins encoded... click to read more

Steve Anderson | PhD student at Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Brian D. Gregory | Professor at Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

genes expression

RNA

stress response

salt

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jun 26, 2019