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Light Shed on Koala Evolution
Recently discovered skull material belonging to the extinct koalas Litokoala and Nimiokoala offers a major step forward in understanding koala evolution,…
Newly identified enzymes help plants sense elevated CO2 and could lead to water-wise crops
Plants take in the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis through microscopic breathing pores in the surface of leaves. But for each molecule of the gas…
Scientists use nanosensors for first time to measure cancer biomarkers in blood
The team—led by Mark Reed, Yale's Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering & Applied Science, and Tarek Fahmy, an associate professor of biomedical and…
New genes for lung disease discovered
The new findings provide hope for better treatment for lung diseases like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma. In the past it has been…
'Rock-breathing' bacteria could generate electricity and clean up oil spills
Published today by the leading scientific journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers have demonstrated for the first time…
Discovery of new gene called Brd2 that regulates obesity and diabetes
The researchers were studying the gene, called Brd2, which had not previously been linked to body energy balance. While complete absence of the gene was fatal,…