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Team develops new weapon to fight disease-causing bacteria, malaria
The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”There is an urgent need for new drugs to combat malaria and bacterial diseases such…
Defective signaling pathway sheds light on cystic fibrosis
In the study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, the researchers report that defective signaling for a protein called the peroxisome…
Decoding the soybean genome
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the soybean plant, Glycine max, an important agricultural crop. As reported in the journal Nature1, the sequencing was…
Discovery of a plant hormone that affects other organisms
Shinjiro YamaguchiTeam LeaderCellular Growth and Development Research TeamRIKEN Plant Science CenterHigh-school biology textbooks describe auxin, cytokinin,…
New cherry blossom tree blooms all seasons
The new breed blooms longer, produces more flowers and grows under a wider range of temperatures than existing cherry blossom trees, demonstrating the power of…
Caltech researchers obtain first brain recordings from behaving fruit flies
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have obtained the first recordings of brain-cell activity in an actively flying fruit fly. The…