You're likely familiar with the idea of the sterile mule: a hybrid animal born of a horse and a donkey that is unable to breed.
Plants & Animals
Jan 10, 2022
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Species typically evolve over the course of eons, but researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a way to do it in less than a year. A team of scientists led by Mike Smanski, Ph.D., in the College of Biological ...
Ecology
Sep 8, 2020
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A Vanderbilt team took the next leap forward in using a little-known bacteria to stop the spread of deadly mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika and dengue.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 23, 2018
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Scientists have identified a virus that can weaken the ability of a fungus to avoid pairing with other incompatible fungi, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens. By promoting fungal pairing, the virus could ...
Biotechnology
Mar 23, 2017
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Wolbachia is the most successful parasite the world has ever known. You've never heard of it because it only infects bugs: millions upon millions of species of insects, spiders, centipedes and other arthropods all around ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 27, 2017
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Two populations of translocated boodies (Bettongia lesueur) which were set up to re-establish locally extinct species at Lorna Glen in the Murchison have created a thriving population made up of fertile hybrid offspring.
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2015
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You can use your telephone to call any other phone in the world. But if you want to place a video call to someone, good luck.
Telecom
Oct 18, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Plant and animal cells contain two genomes: one in the nucleus and one in the mitochondria. When mutations occur in each, they can become incompatible, leading to disease. To increase understanding of such ...
Biotechnology
Feb 5, 2013
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New research suggests that dual-identity immigrants—first-generation immigrants and their descendants who identify with both their cultural minority group and the society they now live in—may be more prone to political ...
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the CNST and ITL has simultaneously changed the color and shape of a single photon, the smallest unit of light.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 6, 2011
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