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Can Mammoths Return? Scientists Launch Unexpected Plan
4+ hour, 25+ min ago (172+ words) Could the legendary giant of the Ice Age — the woolly mammoth — reappear in the future? The US-based company Colossal Biosciences is studying the DNA of ancient mammoths and working to combine their key traits with the modern elephant genome. The…...
Night Shift: Scientists Decode Clubroot Gene Activity After Dark
15+ min ago (130+ words) The Parasite That Works the Night Shift: Clubroot Disease Rewires Crop Plants After Dark Every night, as sunlight fades and photosynthesis grinds to a halt, plants quietly reconfigure their metabolic machinery, shifting resources toward growth, repair, and defense. New research…...
[Science Through Covers] AI rivals human experts in RNA pseudoknot folding challenge
11+ hour, 38+ min ago (485+ words) Stanford and Carnegie Mellon’s Eterna platform uses AI-designed pseudoknot secondary structures to build novel 3D RNA architectures This week’s cover of the international journal 'Science' features the 'pseudoknots' of several ribonucleic acids (RNA). A pseudoknot is a structure in which a…...
Newly discovered Bacillus phage CM1 fights milk contamination
4+ hour, 35+ min ago (945+ words) A Virus for the Superbug in Your Milk: Scientists Unveil Bacillus Phage CM1, a Genetically Screened Killer of Bacillus cereus Somewhere between the milking parlour and the supermarket shelf, a quiet arms race is under way, and for once the good…...
Micropropagation offers new hope for Poland’s critically endangered
5+ hour, 9+ min ago (905+ words) From Glass Jar to Open Water: The First Complete Lab Recipe for Rescuing Poland’s Critically Endangered Pondweed In the quiet of a tissue culture laboratory in Szczecin, Poland, a rescue operation is underway, and every one of its patients fits…...
Field nanopore sequencing yields non-lethal genome assembly of endangered
5+ hour, 10+ min ago (831+ words) Scientists Sequence the Full Genome of a Critically Endangered Caribbean Frog Without Killing It — Entirely on the Island It Calls Home In the mist-draped rainforests of Grenada, researchers have quietly achieved something that until recently would have demanded a killing…...
AI-powered optical methods enable rapid bacterial pathogen detection in
12+ hour, 20+ min ago (72+ words) The Days-Long Wait to Catch Deadly Bacteria Is Collapsing—Under the Gaze of Light and AI Subject of Research: Rapid, label-free and real-time detection of bacterial pathogens in food and clinical samples using optical spectroscopy, optical imaging and artificial intelligence…...
One Tiny Chemical Difference in RNA Could Help Explain the Origins of Life
18+ hour, 13+ min ago (582+ words) A tiny chemical difference makes RNA better than DNA at forming liquid-like droplets under high temperatures and acidic conditions. One of the biggest puzzles in origin of life research comes before the first cells even existed: How could RNA molecules…...
Mitogenomics Reveals Matrilineal Evolution of Southeast Asia’s Mahseer
17+ hour, 1+ min ago (1087+ words) Decoding Sumatra’s “King of the River”: First Complete Mitogenome of the Enigmatic Mahseer Traces an Ancient Maternal Line Through Sunken Worlds Deep in the fast-flowing headwaters of northern Sumatra glides a fish that local communities have revered for generations as…...
Active living matter reveals irreversible symmetry breaking as defects form
22+ hour, 57+ min ago (853+ words) A new study of swarming bacteria and human bronchial epithelial cells has uncovered a hidden asymmetry in the microscopic events that shape living matter: the birth and death of topological defects do not unfold as mirror images of one another....