The key to our humanity isn't genetic, it's microbial
What if the key to perfecting the human species were actually … yogurt?
Cell & Microbiology
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New report explores science of interventions to save coral reefs
A new report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine stated, while the management of local and regional stressors threatening coral reefs is critical, these efforts on their own will not be ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2018
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How to make fish shine
Scientists from the University of Bath have helped to figure out why shoals of fish flash silver as they twist through the water by studying how the shiny silver cells are created in zebrafish.
Biotechnology
Oct 10, 2018
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A novel synthetic antibody enables conditional 'protein knockdown' in vertebrates
The research groups led by Dr. Jörg Mansfeld of the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC) and Dr. Caren Norden of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) have developed a novel ...
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2018
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Predatory bacteria—the quest for a new class of antibiotics
In 2016, the World Health Organization named antibiotic resistance as "one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today." The announcement cited a growing list of infections, such as tuberculosis ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 11, 2017
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Scientists develop chick with 'dinosaur' feet: study
Scientists in Chile have created a chicken embryo that developed dinosaur-like feet after genetic manipulation, highlighting the evolutionary link between theropod dinosaurs and birds.
Archaeology
Mar 16, 2016
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Root microbiome engineering improves plant growth
Humans have been breeding crops until they're bigger and more nutritious since the early days of agriculture, but genetic manipulation isn't the only way to give plants a boost. In a review paper published on September 25 ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 25, 2015
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A new approach to detecting changes in GM foods
Does genetic manipulation causes unintended changes in food quality and composition? Are genetically modified (GM) foods less nutritious than their non-GM counterparts, or different in unknown ways?
Biotechnology
Apr 3, 2014
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Evidence that disproves a long-standing assumption about fish development gives insight into evolution of skeletons
A Singapore-based research team has used fluorescent labeling of embryonic cell populations to pinpoint the origin of scales and fins in modern-day fish. These tissues are evolutionary relics of the first skeletons and were ...
Evolution
Aug 28, 2013
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Changes in cell shape may lead to metastasis, not the other way around
(Phys.org) —A crucial step toward skin cancer may be changes in the genes that control cell shape, report a team of scientists from The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 24, 2013
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