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The impact of climate change on bacteria
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The impact of climate change on bacteria

Global climate change will not only affect plants and animals, but also affect bacteria, fungi and other bacterial populations - microorganisms that exhibit countless im…

December 17, 2018
Worms 'fireflies' are created in the laboratory
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Worms 'fireflies' are created in the laboratory

Recently in BMC Physiology, researchers have described a new luminescent modified worm that allows for the determination of the metabolism of an entire living organism.

December 17, 2018
Keep beer fresher
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Keep beer fresher

Scientists in Venezuela have announced a progress in a thousand-year effort to preserve the beer that beer drinkers love more than all other features of this drink.

December 17, 2018
LEARN ABOUT ORIGINAL CELL (Part 3)
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LEARN ABOUT ORIGINAL CELL (Part 3)

We all start life from a single cell, called zygote, that forms after fertilization. Zygote divides into two cells; every cell in it divides and goes on like that ...

December 17, 2018
The bee's dance breaks the cultural barrier
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The bee's dance breaks the cultural barrier

An international team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time that Asian and European honey bees can learn to understand each other's dance language despite e…

December 17, 2018
How accurate are the rat studies?
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How accurate are the rat studies?

Mice and humans have an 80% identical genome, making mice a suitable substitute and beneficial for humans in medical research. A recent article by two University of Mich…

December 17, 2018
Sweet sorghum Fantastic!
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Sweet sorghum Fantastic!

Sweet like sugarcane, which looks like corn, is extremely easy to grow, not only can it be used for human food, animal feed, but also as a raw material for biofuel prepa…

December 17, 2018
Genetic differences are related to sweetness
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Genetic differences are related to sweetness

A new study in Physiological Genomics found that people with specific genetic differences will consume more sugary foods. The study provides the first evidence of the ro…

December 17, 2018
The difference between fruit flies and humans
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The difference between fruit flies and humans

According to scientists who have discovered a new way to estimate the total number of interactions between proteins in any mechanism, fruit flies are different from huma…

December 17, 2018
Space vegetables
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Space vegetables

You can lose your soul when you come across a 9.5 kg tomato, squash weighs 95 kg, eggplant weighs 6.3 kg, a cucumber is 0.6 m long or 23 cm long ...

December 17, 2018
The house fly - voracious, dirty
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The house fly - voracious, dirty

The presence of flies is a sign of unsanitary living and living conditions, as it carries many contaminants and pathogens. Since the 16th century, people have thought fl…

December 17, 2018
Mysterious spiders invaded Europe
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Mysterious spiders invaded Europe

They are black, nearly 20 cm large and congregate on the wall: An unprecedented invasion of a spider in Germany, Austria and Switzerland is astonishing many experts. Nob…

December 17, 2018