Industrial fishing fleets dump nearly 10 million tons of good fish back into the ocean…
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Pulling the tablecloth out from under essential metabolism
Most organisms share the biosynthetic pathways for making crucial nutrients because it is is dangerous…
Microscope can scan tumors during surgery and examine cancer biopsies in 3-D
A new microscope could provide accurate real-time results during cancer-removal surgeries, potentially eliminating the 20…
Cloning thousands of genes for massive protein libraries
Discovering the function of a gene requires cloning a DNA sequence and expressing it. Until…
Peanut family secret for making chemical building blocks revealed
The peanut and its kin — legumes — have not one, but two ways to…
New tool to identify and control neurons
One of the big challenges in the neuroscience field is to understand how connections and…
Biodiversity loss from deep-sea mining will be unavoidable
Biodiversity losses from deep-sea mining are unavoidable and possibly irrevocable, an international team of scientists,…
Vinegar: A cheap and simple way to help plants fight drought
Researchers have discovered a new, yet simple, way to increase drought tolerance in a wide…
New mechanism for bacterial division discovered in some bacteria
Scientists show how some pathogenic bacteria — such as the mycobacteria that cause tuberculosis —…
How sex ‘blindspot’ could misdirect medical research
The sex of animals frequently has an effect in biomedical research and therefore should be…