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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...

Chemistry Discovery could Remove Micropollutants from Environment

July 16, 2021
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Research Triangle Park, NC — Army-funded research identified a new chemistry approach that could remove micropollutants from the environment. Micropollutants are biological or chemical contaminants...

Acid Sensor Discovered in Plants

July 7, 2021
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Würzburg, Germany — Climate change is causing increased flooding and prolonged waterlogging in northern Europe, but also in many other parts of the world. This can damage meadow grasses, field crops...

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...

How Plants Quickly Adapt to Shifting Environmental Conditions

July 2, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists–and gardeners–have long known that plants grow taller and flower sooner when they are shaded by close-growing neighbours. Now, for the first time, researchers...

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...

Exposure to Pollutants, Increased Free-Radical Damage Speeds Up Ageing

June 22, 2021
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Morgantown, WV — Every day, our bodies face a bombardment of UV rays, ozone, cigarette smoke, industrial chemicals and other hazards. This exposure can lead to free-radical production in our bodies,...

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...

Newly Discovered Enzymes are not Heavy Metal Fans

May 27, 2021
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Tsukuba, Japan — Carbonic anhydrases are essential enzymes that are present in virtually all living things; all eight classes of carbonic anhydrases that have been identified to date need a metal ion...

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...

Winning Gene Combination Takes All

May 10, 2021
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Norwich, UK — Researchers have traced the remaining last steps of the biological pathway that gives oats resistance to the deadly crop disease take-all. The discovery creates opportunities for...

Tiny Plastic Particles in the Environment

May 5, 2021
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Dübendorf, Switzerland — Wherever scientists look, they can spot them: whether in remote mountain lakes, in Arctic sea ice, in the deep-ocean floor or in air samples, even in edible fish – thousands...

Study Paves the Way for New Photosensitive Materials

April 23, 2021
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Tempe, AZ — Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surfaces, pollution-fighting paints...

New Process Makes ‘Biodegradable’ Plastics Truly Compostable

April 21, 2021
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Berkeley, CA — Biodegradable plastics have been advertised as one solution to the plastic pollution problem bedeviling the world, but today’s “compostable” plastic bags, utensils...

Scientists Created Edible Food Films for Food Packaging

March 24, 2021
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Yekaterinburg, Russia — An international group of scientists from India and Russia has created edible food films for packaging fruits, vegetables, poultry, meat, and seafood. Films consist of natural...

New Discoveries on Deadly Fungus – might be a Key for Treatment

March 22, 2021
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Bergen, Norway — Aspergillus fumigatus kills as many people as malaria and tuberculosis, but is less known. It is found “everywhere”, for example in the soil or in our compost, but is not...

How Our Microplastic Waste Becomes ‘Hubs’ for Pathogens, Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

March 22, 2021
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Newark, NJ — It’s estimated that an average-sized wastewater treatment plant serving roughly 400,000 residents will discharge up to 2,000,000 microplastic particles into the environment each...

Particulates are More Dangerous Than Previously Thought

March 19, 2021
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Villigen, Switzerland — Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time observed photochemical processes inside the smallest particles in the air. In doing so, they discovered...

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