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Long-term liquid water also on non-Earth-like planets?
Deadly fungus can multiply by having sex, which could produce more drug-resistant, virulent strains
By Odin's Beard! Tubulins named after the Norse god may be the missing link between single-celled organisms and human cells

Long-term liquid water also on non-Earth-like planets?

Posted: 27 Jun 2022 11:14 AM PDT

Liquid water is an important prerequisite for life to develop on a planet. As researchers report in a new study, liquid water could also exist for billions of years on planets that are very different from Earth. This calls our currently Earth-centred idea of potentially habitable planets into question.

Deadly fungus can multiply by having sex, which could produce more drug-resistant, virulent strains

Posted: 27 Jun 2022 09:50 AM PDT

Researchers have unlocked an evolutionary mystery of a deadly pathogen responsible for fueling the superbug crisis: it can reproduce by having sex. And while such fraternizing is infrequent, scientists report it could be producing more drug-resistant and more virulent strains of Candida auris, capable of spreading faster.

By Odin's Beard! Tubulins named after the Norse god may be the missing link between single-celled organisms and human cells

Posted: 23 Jun 2022 06:12 AM PDT

The 'missing link' between bacterial cells and human and plant cells offers key to the process of eukaryogenesis, the point at which animal and plant cells diverge from bacteria.