A team of researchers led by Professor Yabing Qi in the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan have imaged the atoms at the surface ...
Materials Science
Sep 10, 2021
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The transatlantic slave trade may have introduced new pathogenic viruses from Africa to North America that affected Indigenous communities, shows an analysis of ancient DNA published in eLife.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 7, 2021
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The Native Americans who occupied the area known as Poverty Point in northern Louisiana more than 3,000 years ago long have been believed to be simple hunters and gatherers. But new Washington University in St. Louis archaeological ...
Archaeology
Sep 2, 2021
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A CRISPR-Cas9 variant with deactivated DNA-cutting function—known as "dCas9"—is a powerful tool to help researchers understand what genes do when their expression is dialed up or down, but it has some limitations.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 4, 2021
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DeepMind today announced its partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Europe's flagship laboratory for the life sciences, to make the most complete and accurate database yet of predicted protein ...
Biotechnology
Jul 22, 2021
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Researchers from Dalhousie University and several U.S. institutes have published the first complete genome sequence for the American lobster, yielding critical insight into the species that can both improve sustainability ...
Ecology
Jul 22, 2021
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Current approaches for planning relocation for potentially millions of people affected by climate change and related risks are "woefully inadequate" and risk worsening societal inequities, experts wrote in a policy perspective ...
Environment
Jun 17, 2021
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For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to current theories, researchers have determined that major collisions ...
Astronomy
Jun 8, 2021
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Detailed and extensive genome sequencing of a subspecies of rat-infecting malaria parasites should instruct human malaria research.
Cell & Microbiology
May 31, 2021
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Quadram Institute researchers have discovered a new species of bacterium in the human gut that can convert nitrogen into a biologically useful form.
Cell & Microbiology
May 10, 2021
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