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Greatest Increase in Animal Species Can Help Us Understand and Control Ocean Deoxygenation

Deoxygenation can make large areas of the ocean uninhabitable. But new study offers new knowledge of how oxygen levels affect marine life – this may help us preserve marine ecosystems. “In the past 50 years, we have already lost an area the size of the EU due to deoxygenation,” researcher behind the study says.

MRI May Lower Breast Cancer Death From Variants In 3 Genes

Variants in the ATM, CHEK2 and PALB2 genes are collectively as prevalent as the much-reported BRCA1/2 gene mutations.

Phone App Can Help Detect Blood's Ability To Clot

Researchers have developed a new clotting test that uses only a single drop of blood and a smartphone vibration motor and camera.

Dog Aging Project, A Resource For Scientists In Many Fields

In this week’s Nature, the Dog Aging Project team outlines how the open-source data it's gathering could be useful for a myriad of studies.

Biodiversity Cradles and Museums: New Study on Speciation-Extinction Dynamics

The distribution of old and young species brings new insight into the speciation-extinction dynamics operating in global hotspots of biodiversity.

Study Details Changes In Omicron’s Spike Protein

Findings explain how mutations allow the omicron variant to evade antibodies against previous variants yet remain so infectious.

Hologenomics Viewed Through a Mathematical Lens

A recent paper published by researchers from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH) and collaborators on a strategic model of a host-microbe-microbe system not only reveals the importance of a joint host-microbe immune response to combat stress-induced gut dysbiosis but also reveals a remarkable interdisciplinary collaboration between two different EU projects coordinated by CEH.

Supplement Appears To Boost Muscle, Mitochondria Health

A study cohort that received an oral supplement of a gut-produced compound had better endurance in two small exercises.

Tracking Stress In Pregnant Moms, For Their Child's Health

An artificial-intelligence system was designed to use EKG readings to track the stress of mothers and their fetuses in a recent study.

Antibody That Inhibits Broad Range Of Sarbecoviruses Found

The antibody closely mimics the binding site that the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to infect cells, and seemingly thwarts invasion via mutation.

NEJM Paper Is Compendium On Rapid Tests For COVID-19

The FDA has approved 28 of the more than 1,000 such diagnostics commercially available worldwide.

Mouse Stem Cells For Primitive Endoderm Established

The third type of stem cells that make up the precursors of mouse embryos has been established for the first time

Arabidopsis Thaliana Shoots Regenerate Better In Balmy Conditions

Simply turning up the heat can boost the regeneration of cuttings of thale cress

Patients Favor Telehealth For Medication Abortion Consults

Patients seeking medication abortion care through telehealth services are just as satisfied, if not more so, with the service they received as patients who visited a clinical facility to receive care, according to a study published this month in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Three Chaperones Coordinate The Breakup Of Amyloid Fibrils In Yeast

A fluorescence microscopy study shows how amyloid fibrils in yeast are dismantled

Palaeospondylus : Long-Standing Mystery Of Vertebrate Evolution Solved Using Powerful X-Rays

The Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory led by Shigeru Kuratani at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan, along with collaborators has found evidence that the mysterious ancient fish-like vertebrate Palaeospondylus was likely one of the earliest ancestors of four-limbed animals, including humans.

Genomics Aids Study Of Seattle 2017-22 Shigella Outbreak

A genomic study of a sustained, multidrug-resistant Shigellosis outbreak in Seattle enabled scientists to retrace its origin and spread.

Rapid, Single-Cell Analysis Of Microbiotas Now Possible

A new method for single cells can rapidly determine the make-up of bacterial communities in the gut and environment

Isotope Data Strengthens Suspicions Of Ivory Stockpile Theft

In January 2019, a seizure of 3.3 tons of ivory in Uganda turned up something surprising: markings on some of the tusks suggested that they may have been taken from a stockpile of ivory kept, it was thought, strictly under lock and key by the government of Burundi.

Imaging How A Light-Driven Chloride Pump Works

Light-induced changes in shape enable a pump in a marine bacterium to suck in chloride ions from seawater