A new study led by Imperial College London finds that drug-resistant mold is spreading from the environment and infecting susceptible people's lungs.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 25, 2022
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When talking about caribou, most people probably think of some version of Santa Claus's reindeer. Although real-life reindeer sadly do not exhibit any of the fantastical traits associated with helping Santa deliver gifts ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2022
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Medicago ruthenica, a wild and perennial legume forage widely distributed in semi-arid grasslands, is distinguished by its outstanding tolerance to environmental stress. It is a close relative of commonly cultivated forage ...
Plants & Animals
May 14, 2021
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An international team of researchers led by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have identified 163 variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs) that actively regulate gene expression. In a paper published ...
Biotechnology
Apr 12, 2021
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Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) Assistant Professor and University of California, Berkeley Visiting Scientist Dr. Kiana Aran first introduced the CRISPR-Chip technology in 2019. Now just two years later, she has expanded on ...
Biotechnology
Apr 5, 2021
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Coral conservation efforts could get a boost from a newly developed genotyping "chip"—the first of its kind for corals. The chip allows researchers to genetically identify corals and the symbiotic algae that live within ...
Ecology
Aug 25, 2020
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In many plants the timing of flowering is controlled by a range of environmental and molecular signals.
Plants & Animals
Feb 4, 2020
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Genomic information from plants can be used to enhance agricultural production and improve food security in a sustainable manner. Through better understanding of the relationship between a plant's genetic information and ...
Biotechnology
Nov 1, 2019
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In the version of evolutionary theory most of us are familiar with, randomly occurring variation in traits, caused by mutations in our DNA, can be fixed in a population through natural selection. However, writing in Epigenetics ...
Evolution
Sep 10, 2019
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A total of 174 chicken breeds are described in a publicly accessible database which scientists from the University of Göttingen and the Friedrich Loeffler Institute in Neustadt-Mariensee have built up in recent years with ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2019
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