Researchers capture live footage of virus infecting cell
In a first, scientists have captured on video all the steps a virus follows as it enters and infects a living cell in real time and in three dimensions.
In a first, scientists have captured on video all the steps a virus follows as it enters and infects a living cell in real time and in three dimensions.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 6, 2022
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A study published in the journal PLOS ONE could one day help health workers determine whether bacteria of the species Streptococcus pneumoniae, which cause meningitis—an inflammation of the membranes that envelop the brain ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 6, 2022
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Hidden beneath the delicate, red skin and juicy flesh of a tomato is a wealth of nutrients and genetic makeup. With recent research on the first genome of a species in the tomatillo tribe (part of the tomato family), we now ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 31, 2022
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When NASA's Artemis 1 lunar mission takes off on August 29, on board will be four science experiments—including one from Canada.
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2022
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When creatures evolve, their genetic blueprints change. But within genetic material, fragments from a species' most ancient ancestors still lurk.
Evolution
Aug 29, 2022
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CRISPR-Cas has become somewhat of a superstar over the past decade as a gene editing tool with revolutionary potential, especially in the health sciences. Originally known as an immune defense in bacteria, naturally occurring ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 26, 2022
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Are wolves hunting and howling in the Northeast woods again, more than a century after they were rooted out of the region?
Ecology
Aug 26, 2022
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A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on how our digestive tract, lungs and liver form, and that finding could have important implications for our understanding of cancer.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2022
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In humans, and many other species, both genes inherited from the mother and from the father influence how embryos develop. In the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, however, the mother has total control, as researchers from ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2022
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By analyzing DNA with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed a method that can accurately date up to ten-thousand year-old human remains.
Archaeology
Aug 23, 2022
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