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Scientists develop UK Crop Microbiome Cyrobank to facilitate sustainable yield improvement

Scientists from the UK's foremost agricultural research institutes have teamed up to create a new UK Crop Microbiome Cyrobank (UK-CMCB) to safeguard future research and facilitate the sustainable yield improvement of the UK's six major food crops including barley, oats, oil seed rape, potato, sugar beet and wheat.

12 Oct 2020

Study shows SARS-CoV-2 can survive on common surfaces for long periods of time

Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, can survive for up to 28 days on common surfaces including banknotes, glass - such as that found on mobile phone screens - and stainless steel.

12 Oct 2020

Researchers examine cooperative tumorigenic effects of targeted deletions of tumor suppressors

Volume 11, Issue 28 of Oncotarget features "Genetic analysis of the cooperative tumorigenic effects of targeted deletions of tumor suppressors Rb1, Trp53, Men1, and Pten in neuroendocrine tumors in mice" by Xu et, al. which reported that the authors examined whether the TSGs Rb1, Trp53, Pten, and Men1 have cooperative effects in suppressing neuroendocrine tumors in mice.

12 Oct 2020

Future ocean warming and acidification could cause physical changes in marine mussels

The increased temperature and acidification of our oceans over the next century have been argued to cause significant physical changes in an economically important marine species.

12 Oct 2020

Developing a 'Trojan Horse' nanotherapy to fight breast cancer

With a nearly $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University researchers are using nanoscopic particles to turn the body's own cells into weapons that cancer won't see coming.

12 Oct 2020

Genomes provide insights into fig-wasp coevolution

Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of banyan Ficus species is their extraordinary aerial roots, which enable them to live as hemi-epiphytes, as do the strangler figs often seen in tropical forests.

12 Oct 2020

Bone destruction caused by too little sugar

Bone marrow cancer is currently an incurable disease that affects about 400 people in Norway every year. Professor Therese Standal at NTNU has now found an important reason for bone destruction in people with this disease.

12 Oct 2020

UMD researchers use AI tools to predict how and when proteins form different shapes

By applying natural language processing tools to the movements of protein molecules, University of Maryland scientists created an abstract language that describes the multiple shapes a protein molecule can take and how and when it transitions from one shape to another.

12 Oct 2020

Scientists shed light on immune evasion strategy used by malaria-causing parasite

The Plasmodium parasite, which transmits malaria to humans through infected mosquitos, triggers changes in human genes that alter the body's adaptive immune response to malarial infections, according to a team of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi.

12 Oct 2020

UroCAD assay shows better sensitivity than urine cytology in detecting bladder cancer

Analysis of DNA copy number variants (CNVs) in the cells exfoliated in urine showed better sensitivity and similar specificity in detecting urothelial carcinoma compared with urine cytology.

12 Oct 2020

Researchers develop a new assembler for decoding genomes of microbial communities

Researchers from the Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology at St Petersburg University, as part of a group of Russian and American scientists, have developed the metaFlye assembler.

9 Oct 2020

Biofilms of major pathogenic bacteria can deform soft surfaces

The vast majority of bacteria in the world live on surfaces by forming structures called "biofilms". These communities host thousands to millions of bacteria of different types, and are so biologically complex and active that scientists describe them as "cities".

9 Oct 2020

Researchers investigate how mining activities affect deep seafloor food web

The deep sea is far away and hard to envision. If imagined it seems like a cold and hostile place. However, this remote habitat is directly connected to our lives, as it forms an important part of the global carbon cycle.

9 Oct 2020

Study offers new insights how the plant tips stay free of virus

Plants are able to keep growing indefinitely because they have tissues made of meristems--plant stem cells--which have the unique ability to transform themselves into the various specialized cells that make up the plant, dividing whenever appropriate and producing new cells of whatever type as needed.

9 Oct 2020

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Scientists develop UK Crop Microbiome Cyrobank to facilitate sustainable yield improvement

Study shows SARS-CoV-2 can survive on common surfaces for long periods of time

Researchers examine cooperative tumorigenic effects of targeted deletions of tumor suppressors

Future ocean warming and acidification could cause physical changes in marine mussels

Developing a 'Trojan Horse' nanotherapy to fight breast cancer

Genomes provide insights into fig-wasp coevolution

Bone destruction caused by too little sugar

UMD researchers use AI tools to predict how and when proteins form different shapes

Scientists shed light on immune evasion strategy used by malaria-causing parasite

UroCAD assay shows better sensitivity than urine cytology in detecting bladder cancer

Researchers develop a new assembler for decoding genomes of microbial communities

Biofilms of major pathogenic bacteria can deform soft surfaces

Researchers investigate how mining activities affect deep seafloor food web

Study offers new insights how the plant tips stay free of virus

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Study shows thymoquinone compound selectively kills prostate cancer cells

New approach to determine the structure of large RNA molecules

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