The extensive agriculture that makes it possible to meet the nutritional needs of the planet's billions of inhabitants is based on the use of chemical products (pesticides) to avoid crop losses due to pests. However, these ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2021
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New research has highlighted the value of recycling general anesthetic used in routine operations.
Environment
Feb 24, 2021
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Exposure to some odorless, colorless and tasteless gases, such as nerve agents, can be toxic or even lethal. And having the ability to detect other types of vapors could save people from eating spoiled or rotten food. Easy-to-use ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 10, 2021
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Many chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancers are associated with side-effects of varying severity, because they are toxic to normal cells as well as malignant tumors. This has motivated the search for effective alternatives ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2020
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New research has shown how microbubbles carrying powerful cancer drugs can be guided to the site of a tumor using antibodies.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 8, 2020
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CABI scientists have led new research revealing strong evidence that a natural enemy of the prolific Asian fruit fly Drosphila suzukii—previously believed to be one species—is, in fact, two species; furthermore, only ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2020
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For millions of years, viruses have participated in a far-flung, import-export business, exchanging fragments of themselves with both viral and non-viral agents and acquiring new features. What these tiny entities lack in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 2, 2020
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Broiler chicken producers the world over are all too familiar with coccidiosis, a parasite-borne intestinal disease that stalls growth and winnows flocks. Various approaches, developed over decades, have been used to control ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 7, 2020
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A team from the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) of the University of Valencia has succeeded in synthesizing a new porous material that enables and guides the degradation of compounds analogous to nerve agents used ...
Materials Science
Sep 30, 2020
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When it comes to new botanical discoveries, one might imagine it's done by trudging around a remote tropical rainforest. Certainly, that does still happen. But sometimes seemingly familiar plants close to home hold unexpected ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2020
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