A PROLIFIC investigator does a great service to his brethren when, without waiting to write an elaborate treatise, he collects the gist of some considerable portion of his work into a book; and if the ...

Dormancy and tropism are two abilities plants have that help them survive. Plants can move toward or away from a stimulus (tropism), or halt their growth completely (dormancy) when conditions are not ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

In a recent study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers examined virus-virus interactions using human lung cells coinfected with two co-circulating respiratory infection-causing viruses, ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers from Australia and Switzerland gathered data to help track and manage ongoing and future infection waves by new severe acute ...

The efficacy of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene therapy for the inner ear is fundamentally constrained by the natural tropism of viral vectors, which often lack the precision and efficiency ...

Certain Bordetella bacteria exist in two phases – Bvg+ is characterized by the expression of virulence genes and respiratory tract colonization, while the Bvg- phase is adapted for ex vivo growth when ...

Elementary school students often learn that plants grow toward the light. This seems straightforward, but in reality, the genes and pathways that allow plants to grow and move in response to their ...

Based on: Forced Movements, Tropism and Animal Conduct. By Jacques Loeb, M.D., PH.D. SC.D. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1918.