Authors of an article in BioScience reveal that climate change has become the most pervasive threat to ESA-listed species, marking the first time that this driver has been identified to surpass other causes of biodiversity ...
Plants & Animals
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Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality and creating crops that are adaptable to climate change. However, current plant transformation methods ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Digital learning has become the norm in education, but evaluating its effectiveness remains a challenge. In K-12 settings, the results of a tutoring system or educational game often come long after students have engaged with ...
Education
Apr 24, 2025
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A Kobe University team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms. This technique is indistinguishable from natural variation and enabled the researchers to create a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 24, 2025
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High-starch algae are important in biofuel production, as a feed supplement in agriculture and as an efficient way to bind carbon dioxide. Researchers have now found a new method to control starch storage in algae—a finding ...
Biotechnology
Apr 24, 2025
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Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells in mollusks using blastomere isolation and culture techniques alongside gene expression analysis. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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In many animals, skin coloration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In the corn snake, some morphs display red, yellow, or pink blotches, and their dorsal spots can merge ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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In Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and type 2 diabetes, harmful protein aggregates and deposits, known as amyloid plaques, develop. There is also much evidence that these three diseases are interconnected and mutually reinforcing.
Biochemistry
Apr 24, 2025
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A database about monkey behavior reveals how science is evolving toward a more open, collaborative approach.
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were used. However, past efforts ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 24, 2025
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