The modern rise of gene drive research, accelerated by CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology, has led to transformational waves rippling across science.
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2020
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Some icebergs that break off of Antarctica are massive—the size of New York City—but previously these floating cities of freshwater were largely ignored in climate models. A new study by scientists at Scripps Institution ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2020
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A new study from scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the University of Chicago sheds light on a hotly contested debate in Earth sciences: when did plate subduction begin?
Earth Sciences
Dec 9, 2020
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Bacteria is all around us—not just in bathrooms or kitchen counters, but also inside our bodies, including in tumors, where microbiota often flourish. These 'small ecologies' can hold the key to cancer drug therapies and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 9, 2020
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The Sahara Desert is the world's biggest source of dust and in 2020, it broke the June record for sending the largest and thickest dust cloud toward the Americas.
Earth Sciences
Dec 3, 2020
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Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new and improved probes, known as positive controls, that could make it easier to validate rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for COVID-19 across the ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 1, 2020
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As case rates of COVID-19 reach new heights across the nation, many states and cities are tightening stay-at-home restrictions to stop the spread. New research suggests that that those suffering from economic hardships are ...
Social Sciences
Dec 1, 2020
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For decades, scientists have known that plants protect themselves from the devastation of hungry caterpillars and other plant-munching animals through sophisticated response systems, the product of millions of years of evolution.
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2020
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There is no hole-in-one drug treatment when it comes to the flu, but that doesn't stop scientists from trying to sink one. Especially since as many as one in five Americans gets the flu. The reported estimated cost of this ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 20, 2020
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Finding just the right model to study human development—from the early embryonic stage onward—has been a challenge for scientists over the last decade. Now, bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have ...
Biotechnology
Nov 4, 2020
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