Research unearths the science behind the smell of spring
You may not have heard of geosmin but, wherever you may be on this planet, it is highly likely that you'd recognise its smell.
You may not have heard of geosmin but, wherever you may be on this planet, it is highly likely that you'd recognise its smell.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 7, 2020
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Sometimes referred to as the "the Methuselah of freshwater fish," sturgeons and their close relatives are very old from an evolutionary point of view. Fossils indicate that sturgeons date back 250 million years and have changed ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2020
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The round goby, one of the most common invasive freshwater fish in the world, boasts a particularly robust immune system, which could be one of the reasons for its excellent adaptability. This is the result of genome research ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2020
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Most bioinformatics software used for genomic analysis is experimental in nature and has a relatively high failure rate. In addition, cloud infrastructure itself, when run at scale, is prone to system crashes. These setbacks ...
Biotechnology
Feb 6, 2020
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The genome of the parasitic plant Striga, commonly known as witchweed, has been sequenced for the first time by RIKEN plant geneticists. This genetic analysis both offers insights into how parasitic plants evolved and a tool ...
Biotechnology
Dec 6, 2019
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Although the knowledge we have about human cells and tissues has steadily increased over recent decades, many things remain unknown. For instance, cells exist in transient, dynamic states and understanding them is fundamental ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 4, 2019
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Ethos Veterinary Health, Ethos Discovery, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, announced today that they have developed a highly accurate test for the diagnosis of canine ...
Veterinary medicine
May 22, 2019
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Infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria are a global public health threat causing serious illness and even death. Strains of the bacterium Enterococcus faecium (E. faecium) are generally harmless in healthy people, but ...
Biotechnology
Mar 21, 2019
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The ability to read the genome—all the DNA of an organism—has vast potential to understand human health and disease.
Biotechnology
Mar 13, 2019
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Genome analysis reveals that North African date palms are a hybrid between cultivated date palms from the Middle East and a different, wild species of palm that grows on the island of Crete and in small areas of Southern ...
Evolution
Jan 14, 2019
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