Silicon powers more than electronics: In tomato plants, it fuels a complex defense system that could help farmers use fewer pesticides.
Tomato plants on four continents are currently under attack from the South American tomato…
Category: 5. Biology
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How extreme weather threatens nature’s essential services
How much will strawberry harvests shrink when extreme heat harms pollinators? How much will timber production decline when windstorms flatten forests? How much will recreational value disappear when large wildfires sweep through Colorado’s…
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Healthy eating in midlife linked to overall healthy aging
Maintaining a healthy diet rich in plant-based foods, with low to moderate intake of healthy animal-based foods and lower intake of ultra-processed foods, was linked to a higher likelihood of healthy aging — defined as reaching age 70 free of…
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(Seabird) Chicks Ingesting Plastic | Plants And Animals
A study published in ScienceAdviser investigated the physiological effects of plastic ingestion in seabird chicks, specifically the sable shearwater (Ardenna carneipes), using data-independent acquisition…
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Researchers develop tool to enhance NK cells against cancer
A team of researchers from the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Pompeu Fabra University has developed a new tool that allows modifying these NK cells to make them immune to the…
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Introduced Pacific oysters provide biodiversity benefits in Port River
The study — led by Brad Martin, a Flinders University PhD candidate, with colleagues from Flinders’ College of Science and Engineering — assessed the effects of introduced, reef-forming Pacific oysters (Magallana gigas), within a temperate…
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Scientists engineer starfish cells to shape-shift in response to light
Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start to move and shake, leading to contractions that cause it to squeeze, pinch, and eventually divide. As daughter cells…
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How chromosomes shape up for cell division
Among the many marvels of life is the cell’s ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For this, the cell must duplicate its DNA — its genome — and segregate it equally into two new daughter cells. To prepare the…
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Scientists Just Captured the Stunning Process That Shapes Chromosomes
Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a groundbreaking method called LoopTrace. By observing overlapping DNA loops forming in high resolution, they revealed that…
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How Chickens Grew Dinosaur Feathers (Then Changed Back)
Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the genetics of feather formation by experimenting on chicken embryos. By manipulating a key signaling pathway, they’ve…
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