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| Chromatin originated in ancient microbes one to two billion years ago Posted: 09 Jun 2022 10:19 AM PDT Researchers now reveal that nature's storage solution first evolved in ancient microbes living on Earth between one and two billion years ago. |
| 'Fantastic giant tortoise,' believed extinct, confirmed alive in the Galápagos Posted: 09 Jun 2022 10:19 AM PDT A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive. Fernanda, named after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century. Geneticist successfully extracted DNA from a specimen collected from the same island more than a century ago and confirmed that Fernanda and the museum specimen are members of the same species and genetically distinct from all other Galápagos tortoises. |
| Development of a user-friendly, hot-melt, wound-healing adhesive Posted: 09 Jun 2022 07:18 AM PDT Scientist have developed a hot-melt tissue adhesive (i.e., medical glue that is applied in a molten state) capable of healing operative wounds. This adhesive has excellent medical material properties in terms of its ease of use, adhesiveness to tissues, biocompatibility and ability to prevent postoperative complications. |
| New research shows climate change impacts on whale habitat use in the warming Gulf of Maine Posted: 09 Jun 2022 07:00 AM PDT New research finds climate change is having an impact on how large whale species, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, use habitats in the warming Gulf of Maine, showing that right whales' use of Cape Cod Bay has shifted significantly over the last 20 years. |
| New species of alga named for poet Amanda Gorman Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:45 AM PDT Researchers discovered a new species of alga in central New York and named it Gormaniella terricola, with the genus named after poet Amanda Gorman. The new species is quite interesting in that its chloroplast genome is highly repetitive and contains quite a bit of DNA from fungi and bacteria, meaning it was likely invaded multiple times from other species through a process called horizontal transfer. |
| Europe's largest land predator unearthed on the Isle of Wight Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:22 AM PDT Palaeontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe's largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long and lived around 125 million years ago. |
| Phage therapy for mycobacterium infections: More than 50% success rate Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:22 AM PDT The number of reported cases using viruses to treat deadly Mycobacterium infections just went up by a factor of five. Researchers report 20 new case studies on the use of the experimental treatment, showing the therapy's success in more than half of the patients. |
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