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Cancer Therapy Breakthrough In Vitro Using Self-Assembled Drugs

August 23, 2021
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Huddersfield, UK — One of the most challenging aspects of cancer treatment is the huge variety of different tumours that can occur with each one potentially requiring a different solution because unfortunately,...

DNA Duplication Linked to the Origin and Evolution of Pine Trees and Their Relatives

July 22, 2021
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Gainesville, FL — Plants are DNA hoarders. Adhering to the maxim of never throwing anything out that might be useful later, they often duplicate their entire genome and hang on to the added genetic...

Genome Studies: More is Not Always Better

July 16, 2021
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Würzburg, Germany — What the fruit fly is to zoologists, the thale cress is to botanists. The widespread herb with the botanical name Arabidopsis thaliana serves them as a model organism from which...

Next-Generation Sequencing Uncovers What’s Stressing Bumblebees

July 7, 2021
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Toronto, ON — What’s stressing out bumblebees? To find out, York University scientists used next-generation sequencing to look deep inside bumblebees for evidence of pesticide exposure, including...

New Study Sheds Light on Evolution of Photosynthesis

June 30, 2021
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New Brunswick, NJ — A Rutgers-led study sheds new light on the evolution of photosynthesis in plants and algae, which could help to improve crop production. The paper appears in the journal New...

AI Used to Predict Unknown Links between Viruses and Mammals

June 30, 2021
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Liverpool, UK — A new University of Liverpool study could help scientists mitigate the future spread of zoonotic and livestock diseases caused by existing viruses. Researchers have used a form or...

Measuring the Elimination of Plastic Particles from the Body in Mice

June 17, 2021
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Helsinki, Finland — Postdoctoral Researcher Outi Keinänen from the University of Helsinki developed a method to radiolabel plastic particles in order to observe their biodistribution on the basis of...

New Cyanobacteria Species Spotlights Early Life

May 17, 2021
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Ithaca, NY — Cyanobacteria are one of the unsung heroes of life on Earth. They first evolved to perform photosynthesis about 2.4 billion years ago, pumping tons of oxygen into the atmosphere –...

History of Giants in the Gene: Scientists Use DNA to Trace the Origins of Giant Viruses

May 12, 2021
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Deinze, Belgium — 2003 was a big year for virologists. The first giant virus was discovered in this year, which shook the virology scene, revising what was thought to be an established understanding...

Could Wider Use of Gene Reserves Protect Rare Species?

May 11, 2021
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York, UK — UK landowners and conservationists welcome wider-spread use of Gene Conservation Units (GCUs) to help protect some of the rarest plants and insects, research at the University of York has...

New Study Reveals Biodiversity Important at Regional Scales

February 12, 2021
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Gloucester Point, VA — New research shows that biodiversity is important not just at the traditional scale of short-term plot experiments–in which ecologists monitor the health of a single meadow,...

How Climate Change is Disrupting Ecosystems

December 18, 2020
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Zürich, Switzerland — The world is getting warmer and warmer – and many organisms native to lower latitudes or elevations are moving higher. However, novel organisms moving into a new habitat...

Salt-Tolerant Bacteria with an Appetite for Sludge Make Biodegradable Plastics

December 15, 2020
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College Station, TX — The United States generates seven million tons of sewage sludge annually, enough to fill 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools. While a portion of this waste is repurposed for manure...

Academy Scientists Describe 213 Species in 2020

December 11, 2020
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San Francisco, CA — This past year, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 213 plant and animal species to the tree of life, providing deeper insight into the rich biodiversity of...

Boost to Develop Microalgae into Health Foods

October 15, 2020
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Adelaide, South Australia — Dietary supplementation of fatty acids produced from microalgae have wide-reaching health benefits for humans, including the ability to reduce obesity, diabetes and fatty...

To Protect Nature’s Benefits, Focus on People

October 13, 2020
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Stanford, CA — To calculate the true value of a forest, we need to know how people benefit from it, according to new research published in Nature Sustainability. A healthy forest holds a treasure trove...

Sea Otters, Opossums and the Surprising Ways Pathogens Move From Land to Sea

March 20, 2020
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Davis, CA — A parasite known only to be hosted in North America by the Virginia opossum is infecting sea otters along the West Coast. A study from the University of California, Davis, elucidates the...

Satellite Data Boosts Understanding of Climate Change’s Effects on Kelp

March 6, 2020
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Corvallis, OR — Tapping into 35 years of satellite imagery, researchers at Oregon State University have dramatically enlarged the database regarding how climate change is affecting kelps, near-shore...

Reconstructing the Diet of Fossil Vertebrates

February 21, 2020
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Leipzig, Germany — Information on what our ancestors ate is based mainly on carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of the structural protein collagen in bones and dentin. Nitrogen isotope analysis, in...

Fifty Years of Data Show New Changes in Bird Migration

February 21, 2020
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Chicago, IL — A growing body of research shows that birds’ spring migration has been getting earlier and earlier in recent decades. New research from The Auk: Ornithological Advances on Black-throated...

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