A new strain of a highly pathogenic bird flu known as H7N9 has surfaced at a poultry farm in Mississippi where chickens are raised for breeding.
Veterinary medicine
Mar 19, 2025
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Insecticides may help growers hoping to protect their crops from harmful insects, but they also may contribute to a larger amount of some weeds, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State.
Ecology
Mar 21, 2025
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A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from the Smithsonian Institution, has found evidence of humans domesticating avocados ...
Dogs have many jobs, but one you may not expect is identifying grapevines coated in a destructive and highly contagious fungus. Although dogs can detect serious vine infections by smell, scientists don't know exactly what ...
Veterinary medicine
Mar 23, 2025
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New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in agriculture and horticulture. They were developed by researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 18, 2025
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Filipino researchers have found a way to optimize the traditional procedure for making Philippine rice wine or "tapuy" to produce a potential superfood rich in anti-aging compounds and antioxidants.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 14, 2025
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More than half of the protein within our body can be directly traced to a process invented more than 100 years ago by two German chemists, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch. The Haber-Bosch process artificially fixes nitrogen by ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 11, 2025
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A team of environmental researchers, Earth scientists and pollution specialists at Nanjing University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and colleagues from Germany and the U.S. has found evidence that microplastics have a ...
In a series of three recent studies, a team led by CSIC researcher at CRAG Ana I. Caño-Delgado has made significant progress in understanding the molecular mechanisms and improving the breeding of sorghum, the world's fifth ...
Biotechnology
Mar 13, 2025
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A research team led by Prof. Alexander Vainstein from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a new variety of lettuce with significantly higher ...
Biotechnology
Mar 5, 2025
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