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Strange creatures have 7 genders
When protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila mate, there are 7 types of paired genes that regulate sex so the gender of the next generation will be different from their parent…
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Bacteria, an inevitable part of ... humanity
Scientists have discovered that some of these tiny
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Discover algae fraud
They hunt, eat, cheat: unicellular algae shed light on the social life of microorganisms.
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Gene 'figurehead' - key to increasing crop productivity
With a population of 9.5 billion in 2050, humanity faces the challenge of providing food for a large number of people, while the amount of water, fertilizer and soil cul…
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Strange behavior of bacteria with artificial proteins
An approach to understanding the components of living organisms is to try to create them, using the principles of chemistry, engineering and genetics.
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Dragonflies also have the ability to focus like humans
A new study suggests that dragonflies also have nerve cells to perform labor-intensive tasks - cells found only in primates.
Biology
Detecting cancer cell kill substance in a forest tree
Researchers at the Sarawak Center for Biodiversity, Malaysia (SBC) and Ohio State University are accelerating the development and commercialization of a compound that ca…
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Cable 'live'
Scientists have identified bacteria that act as conductors of electricity, a source of mysterious currents in nature.
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Bacteria help put drugs into diseased cells
The Italian Institute of Earth and Volcanic Physics (INGV) earlier this week said it has identified a new bacterium that can be used to transport drugs to diseased cells.
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Insects also know how to choose high quality foods
Although initially very fond of sweet food, fruit flies quickly learned to choose less sweet food sources with higher nutritional value and calories.
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Causes turn dragonflies from gold to red
Chemical balance between the pigments in the dragonfly's abdomen determines their color. When oxidants are present, these cells are yellow and when there are reductants,…
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Hemp prevents metastatic breast cancer
According to Dailymail, the compound is named cannabidiol
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People were born due to
A successful double-inverted invertebrate, kicks off the process of evolving hundreds of millions of years to form humans and other high-level animals, scientists claim.
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The unique gift of fireflies
In addition to glowing to seduce mates, male fireflies also offer a unique
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Japan has successfully grown a low-absorbing variety of Cadmium
The American Plant Cell magazine recently reported that researchers at Okayama University, Japan, have successfully cultivated a rice variety that hardly absorbs Cadmium…