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Credit: Andre L.C. Franco/ Colorado State University The clearing and subsequent instability of Amazonian forests are among the greatest threats to tropical biodiversity conservation today. Although the devastating consequences of…
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Plant deaths from disturbances like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill accelerate shoreline lossCredit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A new Duke University-led study finds that the death of marsh plants due to disturbances like the heavy…
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Researchers repurpose drug to deny drug-resistant fungus of iron, an element crucial to its survival BUFFALO, N.Y. -- How do you fight a fungal infection that is becoming increasingly resistant to medicine? By starving it, found a team of…
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Credit: Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology at The Rockefeller University As food enters the intestine, it embarks on windy, lengthy journey. For most of the route, its surroundings don't appear to change much. But new research from…
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Novel evidence-based approach led to short- and long-term fitness benefitsCredit: University of California, San Francisco. Activity trackers and mobile phone apps are all the rage, but do they really help users increase and maintain…
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New system employs a deep neural network to overcome the challenge of ground-effect turbulenceCredit: Caltech Landing multi-rotor drones smoothly is difficult. Complex turbulence is created by the airflow from each rotor bouncing off the…
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Kazan Federal University and University of Nottingham are to jointly hold the workshop in Nottingham, United Kingdom UK-Russia Genome Workshop 2019 is scheduled for 16th - 18th September, 2019. Kazan Federal University and University of…
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UMN study leads to better understanding of genomic architecture MINNEAPOLIS, MN- May 24, 2019 - A new study from the University of Minnesota Medical School clarifies how the three-dimensional organization of the genome is regulated at the…
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Helicobacter pylori, a globally distributed gastric bacterium, is genetically highly adaptable. Microbiologists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now characterized its population structure in individual patients,…
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Differences in mortality risk suggest the existence of sport-specific disease mechanisms Professional football players appear to have a somewhat elevated risk of death, including higher risk of succumbing to cardiac and neurodegenerative…
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Inherent cancer stem cell plasticity uncoveredCredit: LIH Until now, researchers have assumed that the growth of solid tumors originates from cancer stem cells characterized by specific surface markers, which develop in a fixed,…
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Neurogenesis may moderate effects of brain pathologyCredit: Orly Lazarov, et al. In a new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers examining post-mortem brain tissue from people ages 79 to 99 found that new neurons…
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Determining how one species becomes distinct from another has been a subject of fascination dating back to Charles DarwinCredit: Courtesy of Yongxian Lu Palo Alto, CA-- Determining how one species becomes distinct from another has been…
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An exotic species threatening local fishCredit: Oriol Cano (University of Barcelona-IRBio) Preventing the introduction of the mosquitofish and removing its population are the most effective actions to control the dispersal of this…
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