Asparagus is one of the most labor-intensive crops on the market. Harvesting demands extreme precisionâthe terrain is uneven, and the stalks are thin and of varying length. These challenges inhibit automation, leading to currently available…
Category: 5. Biology
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Teaching robots to harvest asparagus
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SimCells successfully target and kill drug-resistant bacteria
We are continually in an evolutionary arms race with bacteria. As we develop new antibiotics, they develop resistance, and so it goes on until some of our treatments no longer work. Superbugs and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are a huge global…
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Skull vibrations could be your next password
Modern life requires lots of logging into apps and websites. Even with a
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Impaired lipid transport protein locks stressed cells into cellular limbo
When cells experience enough chronic stress, they can stop dividing permanently. In this state of cellular limbo, known as replicative senescence, cells remain alive but no longer proliferate.
Pinpointing the stressors that help…
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Phylogenetically diverse Central China proposed as newest global biodiversity hotspot
Taxonomic endemism and phylogenetic endemism are both important measures of biodiversity. The former describes the number of distinct species found nowhere else, whereas the latter shows the amount of evolutionary branch length unique to a…
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New optogenetic method precisely controls marmoset brain communication pathways
Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated networks. But scientists have had…
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Parasites defy biodiversity rules, thriving far from the equator
For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the equator and lower toward the poles. Known as the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG), this trend holds across…
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Genomic study advances prioritization of variants in cancer diagnostics
Hiroshima University researchers have developed a practical framework to identify candidate pathogenic variants hidden among the large number of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) detected in comprehensive genomic profiling…
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What Sharks Attacked 5 Million Years Ago
Forty years ago, a teenager looking for fossils with his dad on a beach in Belgium found a whale skull. Later, another father-son pair stumbled across a completely different whale skull. Now, as documented in a recent study led by the Institute…
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Plant-focused diets may decelerate epigenetic aging processes
A new research paper was published in Volume 18 of Aging-US on March 20, 2026, titled “Plant-based dietary patterns are associated with slower epigenetic aging.”
Led by first and corresponding author Hyunju Kim from…
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