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Nitrogen fixation: relationship between plants and bacteria (Part 2)
For plants, allowing symbiotic bacteria is a risky thing. Guests must know to keep themselves from growing out of control, destroying tree structures or interfering with…
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Identifying genes that increase rice yields
Chinese scientists have identified a single gene that is critical to rice production as well as the height and duration of flowering of rice. This can be considered a de…
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Bread mold keeps the secret of disabling the gene causing the disease
Most people see bread when they see bread, they leave it. The remaining percentage sees a potential world of small mold species. A University of Missouri scientist, alon…
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Antifungal tomatoes
Scientists at the University of Amsterdam have discovered how to keep tomatoes from wilting - the answer lies in the molecular level. The article about how the plant def…
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The ability to repair genes can compensate for sex
Birds and bees all have sexual intercourse between males and females, but tiny creatures of the bdelloid rotifer class seem to be completely satisfied with their sexless…
Biology
We can create cars, so why can't we make cells?
Let's assume that you don't know anything about cars, so you want to know how they work. By chance you have a friend who is a car repairman so you ask him to explain the…
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Resistance gene: 2 genes - 1
Crime is only resistant to a pesticide when there is a possibility of two resistance? That seems like a simple thing, even for mosquitoes. However, in fact, this change…
Biology
Discover the gene that forms the fruit shape
The gene, SUN, is only the second gene discovered to play an important role in forming the long form of many different tomato varieties, according to Esther van der Knaa…
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Create human embryos containing DNA from 2 women & 1 man
British scientists have created human embryos containing DNA from 2 women and 1 man, a potentially progressive process to prevent cases such as epilepsy, diabetes and he…
Biology
'Barcode' DNA used in plant identification
A gene 'barcode' can be used to classify most of the species of plants on Earth that have just been identified. This gene can be used to distinguish plants with only a s…
Biology
The secret of the disguise of the tailed butterfly is in the gene
Scientists have published research results on the identification of a gene that helps a harmless butterfly in Africa chase the enemy with butterfly patterns and colors l…
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The evolution of sleep
The roundworm C. elegans, the main subject of research, may be the key to opening the door to one of the central biological mysteries: Why we sleep. Researchers at the U…
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Will map DNA of 1000 people
Any two people will have 99% homologous genomes. But the remaining 1% of the small differences are
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Genetic modification, even small, has great consequences
A study by researchers at McGill University found that small differences in DNA sequences in individuals could cause a major contrast in gene synthesis of genes, leading…
