It typically takes many years of experiments to develop a new medicine. Although vaccines to protect against disease from the novel coronavirus are starting to reach clinics around the world, patients and doctors will still ...
Biotechnology
Dec 16, 2020
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A new optimization technique could help conservation biologists choose the most cost-effective ways of connecting isolated populations of rare, threatened and endangered species living in protected areas. As the human population ...
Ecology
Sep 27, 2016
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Only within the past 12 years have marine biologists come to learn about the eye-opening characteristics of mystifying sea worms that live and thrive on the bones of whale carcasses.
Plants & Animals
Apr 30, 2013
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(Phys.org)—While the common house spider may be creepy, it also has been inspiring researchers to find new and better ways to develop adhesives for human applications such as wound healing and industrial-strength tape. ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2012
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The microbes living in your food can affect your risk of cancer. While some help your body fight cancer, others help tumors evolve and grow.
Evolution
Jan 31, 2023
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Scientists at the University of Groningen have developed an antibiotic whose activity can be controlled using light. It is possible to 'switch on' the substance immediately before use, after which it will slowly lose its ...
Biochemistry
Sep 16, 2013
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They might look like cells and act like cells. But a new potential COVID-19 treatment is actually a cleverly disguised trickster, which attracts viruses and binds them, rendering them inactive.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 11, 2022
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Big Data is changing the way we do science today. Traditionally, data were collected manually by scientists making measurements, using microscopes or surveys. These data could be analysed by hand or using simple statistical ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 17, 2016
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What colour were the dinosaurs? If you have a picture in your head, fresh studies suggest you may need to revise it. New fossil research also suggests that pigment-producing structures go beyond how the dinosaurs looked and ...
Archaeology
Aug 29, 2019
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Scientists at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a new class of genome editing tool. This new "base editor" can directly repair the type of single-letter changes in the human genome ...
Biotechnology
Oct 25, 2017
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