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Glimpse into the nanoworld: microscope reveals tiniest cell processes
Researchers have succeeded in developing a microscope with resolutions better than five nanometres (five billionths of a metre) - roughly equivalent to the width of a hair split into 10,000 strands.
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Consumers open to animal-free dairy products made with precision fermentation
Companies and institutes are currently working on biotechnological processes for the production of dairy products without the use of cows: In so-called precision fermentation, egg and milk proteins are produced with the help of bacteria, yeasts or other fungi. This results in foods such as milk or cheese with a ...
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Buckling point reveals secrets of cyanobacteria locomotion
Scientists investigating cyanobacteria locomotion have found that the filamentous threads start to kink and buckle at a length of around 150 micrometres.
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Genomes of ‘star algae’ shed light on origin of land plants
An international group of researchers has generated the first genome data of on four filamentous ‘star algae’ of the genus Zygnema - among the most closely related to land plants.
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High resolution techniques reveal clues to early microbes in 3.5 billion-year-old biomass
A research team has found new clues about the formation and composition of the 3.5bn year old rocks of Pilbara Craton, which contain traces of the microorganisms that lived at that time.
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New pieces discovered in the puzzle of first life on Earth
Researchers have found evidence dating to around 3.42 billion years ago of an unprecedentedly diverse carbon cycle involving various microorganisms.
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Scientists uncover how coronavirus defends itself against our immune system
A research team identifies “protective switches” in the protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Complex green organisms emerged a billion years ago
Using modern gene sequencing data, researchers investigating the evolutionary history of morphological complexity in streptophytes have pinpointed the emergence of multicellularity to almost a billion years ago.
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Algae provide clues about 600 million years of plant evolution
Research team led by Göttingen University investigates 10 billion RNA snippets to identify ’hub genes’.