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‘Deforestation-free’ palm oil not as simple as it sounds
Genuinely 'deforestation-free' palm oil products are problematic to guarantee, according to a new study. Palm oil is a vegetable oil...
Currents propel the spreading of invasive jellyfish
When the American comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi, also known as sea walnut, conquered the Black Sea as a new habitat...
MSU-based molecular biologists compared human and yeast FACT
Credit: Maria Valieva Today, scientists extensively study FACT - a protein complex that plays a role in DNA packing within...
89% of the Moscow University Herbarium have been digitised in the last three years
Credit: Moscow University Herbarium A senior researcher of the Moscow University Herbarium published in Taxon journal the results of his...
Researchers identify bacteria and viruses ejected from the ocean
Credit: Christina McCluskey/Colorado St. Univ. Certain types of bacteria and viruses are readily ejected into the atmosphere when waves break...
How do insects survive on a sugary diet?
Credit: DANIEL VILLAFRUELA (CC BY 4.0) RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- There's a reason parents tell their kids to lay off the...
Low-cost membrane cleans up light and heavy oils in a single step
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a low-cost membrane that effectively separates oil and water on demand...
NSF-Simons centers to search for the Rules of Life
Credit: Northwestern University The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Simons Foundation, has launched four new centers to...
Biosensor technologies to offer more effective approaches to disease treatment
Credit: Steve Morton Every cell in our bodies is shaped by its outer coating, or biomembrane. This incredible, naturally created...
Why bioelectrodes for energy conversion are not stable
Credit: RUB, Kramer Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have discovered why bioelectrodes containing the photosynthesis protein complex photosystem I are...
Faster genome evolution methods to transform yeast for industrial biotechnology
Credit: DAI Junbiao Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae,...
Why do we need one pair of genome?
Credit: Yaguchi K., et al., Journal of Cell Biology, April 30, 2018 Scientists have unraveled how the cell replication process...
Bumblebees confused by iridescent colors
Credit: Karin Kjernsmo Iridescence is a form of structural colour which uses regular repeating nanostructures to reflect light at slightly...
Indigenous communities moving away from government utilities
Indigenous communities are rejecting non-indigenous energy projects in favour of community-led sustainable energy infrastructure. The switch has led to some...
New link found between alcohol, genes and heart failure
Credit: NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust The researchers investigated faulty versions of...
Infantilism as a norm
Views on human age need to be revisited. The value of adulthood as a period of certainty has declined for...
Which role does the brain play in prosocial behavior?
Helping other people in need is a foundation of our society. It is intuitive to believe that we help others...
Scientific ‘dream team’ shed light on motor neuron death
Credit: Greta Keenan As the old adage goes, 'two heads are better than one'. With the development of new technologies...
Potent new mechanism of action for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease revealed
Tsukuba - Professor Akiyoshi Fukamizu's research group of Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics (Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, TARA), University...
Lung-on-a-chip simulates pulmonary fibrosis
Credit: Ruogang Zhao. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Developing new medicines to treat pulmonary fibrosis, one of the most common and serious...
