Categoria: natura

Il titolo è una bella bugia nel pieno stile giornalistico. S’è scoperto che gli ape americane affette dalla CCD (arnie vuote, sparite30% delle ape in Usa dal 2007) avevano un problema alla RNS e di consequenza nella formazione delle proteine.

Scientists at the University of Illinois and the USDA, using information gleaned from the newly completed honey bee genome and a tool to arise from that information call a microarray (think of this as a massive screening of a tiny bit of honey bee tissue testing for hundreds, probably more, maladies, all at the same time from the same tissue sample), have found that honey bees from colonies suffering from symptoms of Colony Collapse Disorder have had the cellular structures in their bodies that manufacture the proteins necessary to combat stresses, pesticides, nutrition problems and more, compromised by viruses. These viruses, and there are many, one of which is the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus looked at earlier, essentially capture the ribosome function of cells and hijack their capability to produce the components necessary to combat these problems, and force them to produce only more virus proteins.

Bene, si è spostato il problema, invece di capire perchà© sono spariti ora bisogna capire perchà© hanno le ribosomi anormali.