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Most Life on Earth Is Dormant Right Now
The Atlantic· 20 hours agoResearchers recently reported the discovery of a natural protein, named Balon, that can bring a cell’s production of new proteins to a screeching halt....
The Sea Cucumber: Nature’s Answer to Modern Medical Challenges
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoScientists utilize a handful of standard research organisms, including fruit flies and mice, to...
Bizarre Loch Ness Microbe Hunts with a Hyperextensible Origami Neck
Scientific American· 3 days agoThe single-celled organism Lacrymaria olor uses one of the most curious hunting techniques of all....
Searching for a female partner for the world’s “loneliest” plant
Ars Technica· 21 hours ago“Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote paleontologist Richard Fortey in his...
Glen Powell Really Waffled Over Taking Top: Gun Maverick, But Advice From Tom Cruise Brought Him...
CinemaBlend via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHe was really relentless. He really invited me into the process and that's how Tom works. It's a...
From glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for...
Houston Chronicle· 3 days agoAt least 94 living organisms produce their own light through a chemical reaction inside their bodies – an ability called bioluminescence. Examples include luminous fireflies ...
Age is just a number: Immune cell 'epigenetic clock' ticks independently of organism lifespan
Medical Xpress· 5 days agoScientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Minnesota investigated the unique 'epigenetic clock' of T cell aging, demonstrating that T cells can outlive an < ...
Daily use of Listerine mouthwash may increase risk of bacteria linked to cancer, study claims
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 13 hours ago‘Most people should not be using it’ Study author Prof Chris Kenyon, head of the STI Unit at the...
AI’s Advent Doesn’t Spell Labor Doom and Gloom
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA small fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, from the island of New Caledonia was found to have the largest genome of any organism in the world. Apparently it...
Deep-learning-enabled antibiotic discovery through molecular de-extinction - Nature Biomedical...
Nature· 6 days agoDeep learning can be used to mine the proteomes of all available extinct organisms for the discovery of compounds with antibiotic properties.