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The pronoun ‘I’ is becoming obsolete

The pronoun ‘I’ is becoming obsolete

Don’t look now, but the pronoun “I” is becoming obsolete.  Recent microbiological research has shown that thinking of plants and animals, including humans, as autonomous individuals is a ser... Read more

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Biosecurity seen from the inside

Biosecurity seen from the inside

When plants come under attack internal alarm bells ring and their defence mechanisms swing into action – and it happens in the space of just a few minutes. Now, for the first time, plant sci... Read more

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‘Big Data’ Takes Root in the World of Plant Research

‘Big Data’ Takes Root in the World of Plant Research

Botanists at Trinity College Dublin have launched a database with information that documents significant ‘life events’ for nearly 600 plant species across the globe. They clubbed together wi... Read more

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The Snowball Effect of Overfishing

The Snowball Effect of Overfishing

“You don’t realize how interdependent species are until it all unravels” Florida State University researchers have spearheaded a major review of fisheries data that examines the domino effec... Read more

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Researchers manipulate virus to create possible new cancer treatment

Researchers manipulate virus to create possible new cancer treatment

Purdue Univ. researchers have successfully eliminated the native infection preferences of a Sindbis virus engineered to target and kill cancer cells, a milestone in the manipulation of this... Read more

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Discovery offers bio-solution to severe canola crop losses

Discovery offers bio-solution to severe canola crop losses

Research team uncovers gene regulatory network that controls seed ‘de-greening’ A genetic discovery by a University of Calgary-led international research team offers a solution to a longstan... Read more

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Researchers discover early-warning system to prevent fishery collapse

Researchers discover early-warning system to prevent fishery collapse

The work demonstrates how extinction and overfishing threats from multispecies fisheries can be identified decades before valuable species are over-harvested and populations decline Threats... Read more

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Biologists Discover New Method for Discovering Antibiotics

Biologists Discover New Method for Discovering Antibiotics

Promises to revolutionize how drug discovery teams guide their studies Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a revolutionary new method for identifying and cha... Read more

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How We’ll Grow The Next Generation Of Buildings With Bacteria

How We'll Grow The Next Generation Of Buildings With Bacteria

Manufacturing hasn’t evolved much for thousands of years. But a radical shift could be coming: replacing traditional factories with biological ones and designing by “human-cell c... Read more

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Crowdsourcing, for the Birds

Crowdsourcing, for the Birds

“As soon as the heat maps began to come out, everybody recognized this is a game changer in how we look at animal populations and their movement” On a warm morning not long ago o... Read more

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Biology’s drive toward engineering

Biology’s drive toward engineering

Biology is on the verge of getting its versions of the lever, wheel and axle, pulley and other basic machines that enable engineers to build almost any mechanical device, a new analysis has... Read more

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Boosting ‘cellular garbage disposal’ can delay the aging process

Boosting 'cellular garbage disposal' can delay the aging process

UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson’s disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies. The research... Read more

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Synthetic biology research community grows significantly

Synthetic biology research community grows significantly

Update to synthetic biology map identifies new activity across the globe The number of private and public entities conducting research in synthetic biology worldwide grew significantly betwe... Read more

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How to get fossil fuels from ice cream and soap

How to get fossil fuels from ice cream and soap

The advance could lead to more innovative ways of sourcing fuel from natural resources Writing in PNAS, the researchers have shown that the emerging field of synthetic biology can be used to... Read more

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Algae Breaks Down Cellulose: Big Implications for Biofuels

Algae Breaks Down Cellulose: Big Implications for Biofuels

Algae could offer an alternative to the controversial use of land plants in bioenergy production. Astonishing research finding by biologists at Bielefeld University published in the online j... Read more

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