Breeding barley for a changing climate
Climate change is a global issue. It affects our environment and our food supply.
Climate change is a global issue. It affects our environment and our food supply.
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2021
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Macrophages—immune cells that both fight infections and fix the damage they cause—are often placed into two categories: those that increase inflammation (known as "M1") to attack, and those that decrease inflammation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 21, 2021
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Cocooned from the outside world, some 200 critically endangered golden frogs are living a sheltered existence in Panama, protected from a devastating fungus that threatens to wipe out a third of the country's amphibian species—a ...
Ecology
Sep 13, 2020
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has conducted an analysis of the system-wide costs and benefits of using engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) on crop-based agriculture. In their paper published ...
The quality of bathing waters in Europe remains high according to a study by the EU environment agency that found that minimum water quality standards were met at 95 percent of the sites monitored across the continent last ...
Environment
Jun 8, 2020
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Stem cell researchers from the University of Copenhagen have designed a model of an early embryonic brain. The model will increase our understanding of how the human brain develops and can thereby accelerate the development ...
Biotechnology
May 25, 2020
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Cells are often exposed to stressful conditions that can be life threatening, such as high temperatures or toxins. Fortunately, our cells are masters of stress management with a powerful response program: they cease to grow, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 21, 2020
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Two new research papers from The University of Manchester, working with colleagues at Sellafield Limited and the National Nuclear Laboratory show that microbes can actively colonize some of the most intensively radioactive ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 8, 2020
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Fifty newborn red handfish are giving IMAS scientists an opportunity to help save the last known populations of the world's rarest fish.
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2019
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Researchers at TU Delft have discovered a method to stretch and compress quantum materials using hydrogen gas. They demonstrated this effect using a tiny string of a material called tungsten trioxide, which acts as a sponge ...
Nanophysics
Nov 18, 2019
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