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Hidden Cyanobacteria That Harvest Far-Red Light Revealed in Taiwan’s Hot
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (537+ words) Deep in the steaming runoff channels of Taiwan’s hot springs, a group of microbes has been quietly rewriting the rules of photosynthesis. These are the far-red light-utilizing cyanobacteria, or FRLCyano, organisms capable of extending oxygenic photosynthesis beyond the visible spectrum…...
New Rust Toolkit Supercharges Sex Determination Studies in Non-Model
4+ hour ago (628+ words) A new open-source software package promises to transform how biologists hunt for the genetic switches that separate males from females in species with no reference genome....
Mole-Rat Genes Evolving Faster Than Expected Reveal Secrets of Subterranean
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (568+ words) Beneath the sun-baked soils of eastern and southern Africa, a family of rodents has quietly rewritten the rules of mammalian life. Naked mole-rats resist cancer, tolerate near-anoxic conditions and barely age. Damaraland mole-rats dig elaborate tunnel networks and live in…...
Duplicated Energy Genes Reveal How Fish Mitochondria Evolved After Genome
8+ hour, 10+ min ago (620+ words) Every heartbeat, every twitch of a fin, and every dividing cell in a fish embryo depends on a molecular machine so ancient that its origins trace back billions of years. Oxidative phosphorylation, or OXPHOS, is the process by which cells…...
Why Personality Links Fade with Age: Cricket Study Reveals Genetics and
8+ hour, 57+ min ago (695+ words) For nearly two decades, behavioural ecologists have been fascinated by the fact that animals are not simply bundles of independent traits. A bold individual tends to be an aggressive one; a curious animal often takes more risks. These consistent suites…...
DNA Hints at Hidden Diversity in a Declining South Asian Frog
9+ hour, 12+ min ago (681+ words) Across the flooded fields and scrubby foothills of South Asia lives a frog that most people, including many biologists, would struggle to tell apart from its close relatives. The burrowing frog Sphaerotheca maskeyi, a medium-sized member of the family Dicroglossidae,…...
Enzymes and Fermentation Team Up to Strip Bad Flavors from Mealworm Protein
10+ hour, 26+ min ago (675+ words) Edible insects have been heralded as one of the most sustainable protein sources on the planet, but there has always been an awkward catch: many people simply do not like the way they smell or taste....
Cryo-EM Captures Hidden Pre-Active State That Switches On the Brain’s
11+ hour, 30+ min ago (663+ words) For decades, neuroscientists have marveled at the sheer speed of communication in the brain, and much of that speed depends on a single family of proteins known as AMPA receptors....
Your Brain Cleans Itself While You Sleep – Scientists Just Discovered How Fast
18+ hour, 17+ min ago (172+ words) AI reveals a striking two speed cleanup system that helps the sleeping brain clear away harmful waste....
Scientists Bred “Super-Athlete” Mice for 30 Years – What Happened Was Unexpected
17+ hour, 42+ min ago (228+ words) A study involving 100 pairs of mice produced unexpected results that surprised researchers....