Biology – Page 35
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Research
Healthy animals mimic body odour of sick companions
Sniffer mice and chemical analysis suggest that sickness odours are contagious
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Podcast
Liquid by Mark Miodownik – Book club
Mark Miodownik on the delightful, dangerous and downright strange liquids that flow through our lives
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Research
Banned persistent pollutant still threatens half of killer whales
PCBs in world’s oceans could drive most contaminated populations to extinction
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Research
Hepatitis C drug lead designed to target virus RNA
Gene-to-RNA-to-medicine pipeline possible thanks to technique that reveals interactions between RNA and small molecules
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Research
Biomarker evidence that Dickinsonia were first animals
Analysis places unusual ovular organism on multicellular branch of phylogenetic tree
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Research
Gold rush for lignin conversion
Catalytic breakthrough surrounding the notoriously difficult oxidative depolymerisation of lignin could make cellulosic ethanol biofuels commercially viable
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Research
Artificial iron–sulfur catalyst is highly functional
Sulfite reductase mimic represents major advancement in engineering synthetic enzymes
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Review
Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental & Physical Ability
Meet the people at the peak of their powers
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Podcast
Antihistamines
From calming a hyperactive immune system to increasing cognitive abilities, these small molecules have a big impact
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Opinion
The physicist's guide to biology
How Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? overlooked the central science
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Research
Novel fatty acids have exceptional lubricant potential
Chinese oilseed plant offers opportunities for industry
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News
Crispr-edited crop research could be crippled by European court ruling
Warnings that European court’s decision will setback crop biotechnology for a decade
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Podcast
Ethyl iodoacetate
A tear gas used by the British army in the first world war, picked, in part, because of our access to seaweed