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Understanding SARS-COV-2 proteins is key to improve therapeutic options for COVID-19

COVID-19 has had a significant impact since the pandemic was declared by WHO in 2020, with over 3 million deaths and counting, Researchers and medical teams have been hard at work at developing strategies to control the spread ...

Molecular & Computational biology

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Rules of the road: The navigational 'strategies' of bacteria in motion

Bacteria that move around live on the edge. All the time. Their success, be it in finding nutrients, fending off predators or multiplying, depends on how efficiently they navigate through their confining microscopic habitats. ...

Molecular & Computational biology

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Researchers find target to fight antibiotic resistance

Gram-negative bacteria are the bane of health care workers' existence.

Molecular & Computational biology

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Newly described horned dinosaur from New Mexico was the earliest of its kind

A newly described horned dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 82 million years ago is one of the earliest known ceratopsid species, a group known as horned or frilled dinosaurs. Researchers reported their find in a publication ...

Paleontology & Fossils

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Successful DNA replication in cyanobacteria depends on the circadian clock

A new study from the University of Chicago has found that the photosynthetic bacterium Synechococcus elongatus uses a circadian clock to precisely time DNA replication, and that interrupting this circadian rhythm prevents ...

Cell & Microbiology

4 hours ago

New research will make bean crops hardier, help improve global food security

Tepary beans—a high protein legume common to the southwest United States and Mexico—may hold the key to adapting bean crops for the increasingly harsh conditions brought on by a changing climate, according to research ...

Biotechnology

4 hours ago

New genetic 'CopyCatchers' detect efficient and precise CRISPR editing in a living organism

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have laid the groundwork for a potential new type of gene therapy using novel CRISPR-based techniques.

Biotechnology

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A comprehensive map of the SARS-CoV-2 genome

In early 2020, a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, scientists were able to sequence the full genome of the virus that causes the infection, SARS-CoV-2. While many of its genes were already known at that point, ...

Biotechnology

6 hours ago

Researchers reveal Knl1 gene function in plants

Dr. Han Fangpu's group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reports the identification and functional study of the maize Knl1 gene in an article published online in PNAS. ...

Plants & Animals

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Sex cells in parasites are doing their own thing

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered how microbes responsible for human African sleeping sickness produce sex cells.

Cell & Microbiology

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On the heels of one rare gray wolf's epic journey into California, another arrives

A young male gray wolf crossed into far Northern California early this month—joining another wolf that trekked into the state in late January and made an epic journey south.

Ecology

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Horseradish flea beetle: Protected with the weapons of its food plant

When horseradish flea beetles feed on their host plants, they take up not only nutrients but also mustard oil glucosides, the characteristic defense compounds of horseradish and other brassicaceous plants. Using these mustard ...

Plants & Animals

6 hours ago

Now is the time to think about reintroducing jaguars into the US

A group of scientists say now is the time to talk about reintroducing jaguars (Panthera onca) into the U.S.

Plants & Animals

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Glyphosate inhibits symbiotic bacteria in beetles

Saw-toothed grain beetles live in a symbiotic association with bacteria. Their bacterial partners provide important building blocks for the formation of the insect's exoskeleton, which protects the beetles from their enemies ...

Plants & Animals

7 hours ago

Potential risk to dolphins due to unique fasting habits

Dolphins could be at risk if their foraging opportunities are impacted due to man-made disturbances such as shipping, tourism, coastal development and oil and gas exploration.

Plants & Animals

7 hours ago

Novel ancient shark discovered

This rare fossil find comes from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England, a series of sedimentary rocks that was formed in a shallow, tropical-subtropical sea during the Upper Jurassic, about 150 million years ago. The fossil ...

Paleontology & Fossils

4 hours ago

Roads pose significant threat to bee movement and flower pollination

Roads can be barriers to wildlife of all sorts, and scientists have studied road impacts on animals ranging from Florida panthers and grizzly bears to box turtles, mice, rattlesnakes and salamanders.

Plants & Animals

4 hours ago

When conservation work pays off: After 20 years, the Saker Falcon breeds again in Bulgaria

The Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) is a bird of prey living in plains and forest-steppes in the West and semi-desert montane plateaus and cliffs in the East. The majority of its Central and Eastern European population is migratory ...

Plants & Animals

5 hours ago

The formation of the Amazon Basin influenced the distribution of manatees

All three species of manatee now present on Earth share a common ancestor from which they split some 6.5 million years ago, when a huge lake in Amazonia, then linked to the Caribbean, was cut off from the sea. The African ...

Molecular & Computational biology

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