Plant hormones play a major role in plant growth and development. They affect similar processes but, paradoxically, their signaling pathways act nonredundantly. Hormone signals are integrated at ...

In multicellular organisms, growth factors, hormones, neurotransmitters ... For instance, neurotransmitters are a class of short-range signaling molecules that travel across the tiny spaces ...

Microbial factories provide a sustainable alternative to tree sap for producing elusive plant molecules, offering new ...

It's difficult to prove you've identified a new hormone — a chemical signal that directs behavior ... the new hormone can also boost bone growth in males, the researchers showed.

How does a tiny molecule help shape the future of global food security? Researchers from the University of Tasmania have ...

The growth hormone-releasing peptide-6 (GHRP-6) has gained considerable interest in scientific research due to its distinct ...

A paracrine hormone of skeletal muscle acts as an endocrine signal for the synthesis of a sex hormone. Scientists at McGill University have observed in mice how myostatin, which inhibits the ...

But the reality is that all poultry and pork sold in the US must be "hormone free." The US Food and Drug Administration has not approved any growth hormones for use in raising pigs and birds for ...

Chongqing University and Maximum Academic Press (MAP) are very pleased to announce the launch of open-access journal: Plant ...

Signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT)5A and -5B are latent transcription factors expressed in pancreatic β-cells and other tissues. Prolactin and growth hormone binding to their ...

has studied how the hormones insulin and insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) control aging in flies. "We know that reducing ...