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1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (104+ words) In a finding that could reshape one of aquaculture’s most controversial practices, researchers in Uganda and South Africa have shown that ordinary pine pollen—the fine, powdery substance produced in vast quantities by pine trees—can transform an all-female population…...

4+ hour, 19+ min ago   (99+ words) In a discovery that rewrites part of the molecular playbook governing how blood vessels build and refine themselves, researchers in France and Canada have identified the protein MCC—better known for its association with colorectal cancer—as a crucial link…...

6+ hour, 38+ min ago   (615+ words) Diabetic wounds have long been among the most stubborn challenges in clinical medicine. High blood sugar, poor circulation, and a chronically inflamed microenvironment conspire to stall the normal repair process, turning minor injuries into chronic ulcers that can persist for…...

6+ hour, 38+ min ago   (747+ words) A team of computational geneticists and epidemiologists has unveiled a cloud-based workflow that promises to strip away one of the most persistent barriers in precision medicine: the sheer difficulty of analyzing whole-genome sequencing data at scale, reproducibly, and without access…...

8+ hour, 57+ min ago   (59+ words) Deep inside plant genomes lies a family of small proteins so structurally rigid that they survive boiling, so chemically versatile that they can both shield cells from oxidative damage and, in some contexts, promote it, and so evolutionarily ancient that…...

21+ hour, 12+ min ago   (481+ words) 66-year-old patient lives 271 days without dialysis on gene-edited Yucatan pig kidney before receiving deceased donor organ A patient who received a pig kidney not only achieved the longest survival record to date after an animal kidney transplant, but also successfully…...

11+ hour, 23+ min ago   (743+ words) In the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers have grown a remarkable variety of maize for generations. Unlike the corn cultivated across the world’s great breadbaskets, these Sierra Mixe landraces send up clusters of thick aerial roots from their stalks, sometimes…...

12+ hour, 6+ min ago   (101+ words) In a finding that could reshape how scientists fight one of agriculture’s most elusive classes of pathogens, researchers in Japan have discovered that short, synthetic strands of DNA can do something remarkable: when applied alongside the potato spindle tuber viroid,…...

12+ hour, 20+ min ago   (81+ words) Kidney organoids grown from human stem cells have transformed how researchers study kidney development and disease, but they have always shared one stubborn flaw: they lack blood vessels. Now a team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands has unveiled a…...

17+ hour, 11+ min ago   (400+ words) | Newswise Newswise Ginsenoside from Panax plants rewires root growth by blocking auxin traffic and triggering oxidative stress Integrative analysis of morphological alterations in P. ginseng adventitious roots following ZR1 treatment. Continuous cropping of Panax species—medicinal plants valued for their ginsenoside content…...