… chemical messenger, opens the door to the largely unexplored area of gut-to-brain communication beyond feeding behavior.
“We found the transition from feeding to mating and were very surprised that a single …
… Not only is that a lot of people, it’s also a lot of mouths to feed – far too many for today’s farms to satisfy. In fact, feeding this future population will …
… regulating feeding.
“We discovered that the circuit that projects to the hypothalamus primarily regulates hunger-driven feeding, but does not influence the non-hunger driven feeding behavior,” said Xu, professor of pediatrics – nutrition …
A study led by the researcher Almudena Prieto, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered long narrow dust filaments which surround and feed black holes in the centres of galaxies …
… and growth.
“We’ve made use of something that nature has come up with to symbiotically feed our plants,” says Tim Schnabel, a PhD candidate in bioengineering at Stanford who carried out much …
An unfortunate biological “feed-forward” loop drives cartilage cells in an arthritic joint to actually contribute to progression of the disease, say researchers at Duke University and Washington University in Saint Louis.
Pain …
Researchers at Tufts University have found that those distinctly funky smells from cheese are one way that fungi communicate with bacteria, and what they are saying has a lot to do with the …
by Caleb Davies
How do you feed a city? It is one of the great questions of our time. After all, for a species that ultimately depends on plants to feed ourselves, we …
Feeding at the ocean’s surface appears to play an important role in New Zealand blue whales’ foraging strategy, allowing them to optimize their energy use, Oregon State University researchers suggest in a …
… levels promoted feeding and foraging behavior in fruit flies. Conversely, increasing Dpp levels reduced foraging and feeding.
A link between Dpp, dopamine and feeding initiation
The researchers also found that muscle-derived Dpp …
… tags fitted with cameras and accelerometers to gain an understanding of how humpback whales in Alaska feed and how some whales use bubbles to optimize their consumption of krill by producing bubble-nets …
… soil drought and atmospheric aridity are largely driven by a series of land-atmosphere processes and feedback loops. They also found that land-atmosphere feedbacks would further intensify concurrent soil drought and atmospheric …
… clouds was a mystery. According to the new study, oceanic currents and weather systems brought bacteria feeding off algae blooms to the sea spray above the ocean’s surface, helping to feed the …