Biology Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Top new questions this week: Understanding the brain: how are neurotransmitters released in the brain? I have a basic knowledge of how neural networks work. A potential difference is created that forces sodium, potassium, chloride, and calcium ions to flow which carries an electrical signal to the end ... neuroscience brain neurotransmitter   asked by Dirac 7 votes What will happen if the fetus is Rh- and the mother is Rh+? If the mother has Rh-negative blood and the foetus has Rh-positive blood it will result in rhesus incompatibility and lead to erythroblastosis fetalis. So what will happen if the reverse occurs and ... human-biology immunology hematology reproductive-biology blood-group   asked by Shirin Riana 5 votes answered by YviDe 8 votes What is the origin of prions? We know something about the origin of the first cell. But what do we know about prions? How did they originate? evolution prion   asked by Bird 5 votes answered by Kendall 5 votes Where can you find the quantities of each amino acid of a particular protein or food? If I wanted to know how much µg or % of each of it's amino acids in 1 gram of a food like a potato, where can I find this information? Is there a freely accessible database online with these ... food nutrition database amino-acids   asked by Happy 4 votes answered by Vance L Albaugh 1 vote Standard practice for generating rarefaction curves from Next Generation Sequencing data We have a few million 18S reads from a particular environment. The reads have been clustered into Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU), and the OTUs annotated against a reference database. To generate a ... bioinformatics ecology dna-sequencing sequence-analysis microbiome   asked by Ben S. 4 votes Is high metabolism linked to high evolutionary turnover? I recently read The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker, a 1986 popular science book presenting arguments for an active lifestyle and high metabolic rate in dinosaurs. One of the arguments that ... evolution metabolism ecology extinction   asked by augurar 4 votes Why aren't plants' roots as diverse as leaves? I have been doing some gardening recently and I suddenly realised that all plants have superficially identical non-woody roots of the same size from gigantic trees to small fruiting plants and ... botany plant-anatomy   asked by CJ Dennis 4 votes answered by David Blomstrom -2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What are the differences between white and brown adipose tissue? What are the differences between white and brown adipose tissue? Here are some that I have come across: Brown Adipose Tissue White Adipose Tissue Thermogenic ... metabolism   asked by Robert Long 2 votes answered by shigeta 1 vote Can dish soap really be used to kill ticks and fleas? An answer at Pets suggested using dawn dish soap to kill fleas. I did a little looking around, and found several references supporting the idea. Most of what I found was in 'selfhelp' and 'save a ... parasitology   asked by James Jenkins 7 votes answered by James Jenkins 10 votes Can you answer these? Cholesterol transport rates I have always had trouble grasping the physiology of lipoprotein cholesterol transport. The "standard" description found in the literature is that liver synthesizes cholesterol which is carried in ... metabolism cholesterol   asked by Roland 1 vote Is there a model perennial plant species? Most of plant science is conducted on small annual species with short life cycles; predominantly Arabidopsis thaliana, but also a handful of others like Oryza sativa and Medicago truncatula etc. Is ... botany plant-physiology plant-anatomy   asked by G_T 3 votes CNS lymphatic vessels around ventricles lat et 4th? I am searching for precise locations of the lymphatic vessels of the CNS based on the applications of the article here. However, I did not find any when having a focus on the immediate region around ... neurology lymphatic cns   asked by Masi 2 votes

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