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Here's how we help an iconic California fish survive the gauntlet of today's highly modified waterways
Imagine a world where just six out of every 100 newborns make it to their teenage years, the rest unable to survive post-apocalyptic environmental conditions that have become too strange and dangerous for human life. That's ...
Plants & Animals
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Team engineers a microbial platform for efficient lutein production
A research group at KAIST has successfully engineered a microbial strain capable of producing lutein at industrially relevant levels. The team, led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee from the Department of Chemical and ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Scientists design stable enzymes for non-natural reactions with near-natural efficiency
Weizmann Institute of Science-led researchers have unveiled a computational workflow that crafts enzymes exhibiting catalytic efficiencies surpassing 100,000 M−1 s−1, achieving performance comparable to natural biocatalysts ...
Genome-scale model tracks how citrus plants respond to stress and disease
A new tool allows researchers to probe the metabolic processes occurring within the leaves, stems, and roots of a key citrus crop, the clementine. The big picture goal of this research is to improve the yields, flavor and ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Forest trees and microbes choreograph their hunt for a 'balanced diet' under elevated CO₂
Oak trees change their fine roots and "energize" soil microbes by supplying them with a cocktail of small organic compounds, all to supplement the trees' supply of essential nutrients when exposed to higher levels of carbon ...
Plants & Animals
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Deep ocean currents shape microbial communities across South Pacific, scientists discover
A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life across the South ...
Ecology
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Mangrove as metaphor: Adaptable plant offers inspiration for sustainable food systems model
Humans rely on metaphors to guide a shared understanding of our complex world, and in a novel twist, a faculty member in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Fisheries, Animals and Veterinary Sciences is borrowing ...
Agriculture
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AI finds hundreds of potential antibiotics in snake and spider venom
Snake, scorpion, and spider venom are most frequently associated with poisonous bites, but with the help of artificial intelligence, they might be able to help fight antibiotic resistance, which contributes to more than one ...
Biotechnology
10 hours ago
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Peaceful microbes outlast aggressive rivals in harsh, frequently disrupted environments
On the battlefield that is the microbial world, where microorganisms often try to wipe out the competition by producing various toxins, sometimes it helps to be a pacifist.
Cell & Microbiology
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Plastic 'death trap' revealed in birds' nests
New research reveals the impact of discarded plastic materials on young birds—with chicks dying after becoming entangled in synthetic fibers used to build their nests.
Plants & Animals
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Neanderthal gene variant lowers muscle enzyme activity in modern humans
The enzyme AMPD1 plays a key role in muscle energy production and normal muscular function. Loss of AMPD1 activity due to genetic mutations is the most common cause of metabolic myopathy in Europeans, occurring at a frequency ...
Evolution
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How plants respond to scattered sunlight in different ecosystems
When sunlight hits clouds or other atmospheric particles, it scatters and becomes diffuse light. Unlike direct sunlight, diffuse light can reach deeper into shaded plant canopies, where plants have dense, layered leaves. ...
Plants & Animals
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Cilia dynamics create a dynamic barrier in human airway epithelia
Scientists have discovered a previously unrecognized way that human airways protect lungs from infection—through the action of cilia, tiny hair-like structures lining the respiratory tract.
Cell & Microbiology
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Faster and brighter protein labeling with new tool SNAP-tag2
Self-labeling protein tags such as SNAP-tag offer the opportunity to attach bright and photostable synthetic fluorophores to proteins of interest for later analysis, and are widely used in biochemistry. Scientists at the ...
Biotechnology
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Emerging viral threats combated by a potent new dual lipid kinase inhibitor
Lipid kinases are enzymes that play a critical role in both cell signaling and membrane trafficking by phosphorylating lipid molecules in the body. The inhibition of two of these lipid kinases, PIKfyve and PIP4K2C, provides ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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This brain circuit drives the urge to mate. Except when it doesn't
In animals with social structures, the drive to reproduce is a complex process; governed by the brain, it's influenced by both internal cues such as hormones and external factors such as interactions with potential mates.
Molecular & Computational biology
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Study finds joro spiders attack and eat each other sometimes: 'Nonsexual cannibalism'
Researchers in a new study found that the world-infamous parachuting joro spiders will attack and eat each other in certain conditions.
Plants & Animals
14 hours ago
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Spotted lanternflies love grapevines, and that's bad for Pennsylvania's wine industry
Spotted lanternfly season is back in Pennsylvania. The polka-dotted, gray-and-red-winged adult insects make their appearance each July and tend to hang around until December. It's an unwelcome summer ritual that started in ...
Agriculture
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Regrowing hearing cells: New gene functions discovered in zebrafish offer clues for future hearing loss treatments
While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other parts of the body. For example, when the tiny sensory hair cells in our inner ears are damaged, the ...
Cell & Microbiology
17 hours ago
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Study reveals how de novo genes are turned on and regulated in cellular networks
Most genes are ancient and shared across species. But a small subset of genes are relative newcomers, spontaneously emerging from stretches of DNA that once encoded nothing at all.
Molecular & Computational biology
17 hours ago
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