Using a multi-species experimental approach, researchers from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) have recently found that trade-off between current reproduction and future performance was associated ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2022
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In the meat industry, it's common practice to turn the whole animal into food products. In the fish industry, over half of the weight of the fish ends up as side-streams which never reach our plates. This takes a toll on ...
Biotechnology
Jun 28, 2022
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Kobe University researchers have successfully developed a tyrosine chassis (a strain of microorganism with high tyrosine productivity) in the yeast Pichia pastoris through rational engineering. In addition they used this ...
Biochemistry
Jun 10, 2022
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Australian researchers have located what is believed to be the largest plant on Earth—and they estimate it's at least 4,500 years old.
Plants & Animals
Jun 01, 2022
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The fact that nature is an excellent chemist is demonstrated by the abundance of molecules, so-called natural products, which it produces biosynthetically. These natural products are also of central importance to us humans. ...
Biochemistry
May 27, 2022
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A human enzyme converts chemicals produced by marine sponges and related synthetic derivatives into cell-killing compounds, shows a study published today in eLife.
Cell & Microbiology
May 11, 2022
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While much research has focused on the striking differences in biodiversity between tropical and temperate regions, another, equally dramatic, pattern has gone largely unstudied: the differences in species richness among ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 22, 2022
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Scientists have accurately analyzed the tough barrier layer of the skin, giving the most detailed molecular map of its structure, which will help in the development of new skin products and treatments.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 14, 2022
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Ice cores allow climate researchers to look 800,000 years back in time. New research indicates that atmospheric carbon acts as fertilizer, increasing biological production. The mechanism removes carbon from the air and thereby ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2022
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People are having children later than ever before. The average age of new parents in the United States has been rising for at least the past half century.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 03, 2022
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