It's hard to protect something you can't find. A new Stanford study reveals sampling soil for animals' left-behind DNA can provide valuable information for conservation efforts—with significantly less cost and time—than ...
Ecology
Jan 14, 2020
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Monkeys and other animals communicate through calls that can differ depending on region. The common marmoset is one such animal that communicates using regional dialects. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now found ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2019
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Human population density and land use is causing changes in animal genetic diversity, according to researchers at McGill University.
Ecology
Oct 22, 2019
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Providing a glimpse the hidden workings of evolution, a group of researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that embryos that appear the same can start out with surprisingly different instructions.
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 3, 2019
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UNSW scientists have added to the growing body of research into genetic markers that are important for animal conservation.
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2019
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An open-source RNA analysis platform has been successfully used on plant cells for the first time—a breakthrough that could herald a new era of fundamental research and bolster efforts to engineer more efficient food and ...
Biotechnology
May 16, 2019
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Imperial researchers are using a new approach to understand why same-sex behaviour is so common across the animal kingdom.
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2019
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Global warming has caused twice as many ocean-dwelling species as land-dwelling species to disappear from their habitats, a unique Rutgers-led study found.
Environment
Apr 24, 2019
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has discovered a new species of mastodon. In their paper uploaded to the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ, the group describes discovering the new species ...
With their first ever RNA-based inducible system for switching on genes in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), two researchers from the University of Konstanz have closed a significant gap in genetic switches. ...
Biotechnology
Jan 30, 2019
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