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Halving Europe's Foodwaste Could Solve Rest of World's Food Shortages

New calculations show European countries have great potential for reducing demand for global food resources and associated GHG footprint. Researchers have estimated the climate footprint savings that may be obtained from reducing food loss and waste.
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A Lake's Sediment Can Tell Its Biodiversity History

AI analysis shows pollution levels, extreme weather events and increasing temperatures devastate biodiversity in freshwater lakes.
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Elevated Biological Age Linked to Greater Dementia and Stroke Risk

People who have a higher biological age than their actual chronological age have a significantly increased risk of stroke and dementia, especially vascular dementia.
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Chickens Modified With Gene Editing Tool To Halt Bird Flu Outbreaks

Scientists have used gene editing techniques to identify and change parts of chicken DNA that could limit the spread of the bird flu virus in the animals.
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Formaldehyde Disrupts Cellular Epigenetics

An international team of researchers has discovered that formaldehyde, a widely spread pollutant and common metabolite in our body, interferes in the epigenetic programming of the cell.
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Understanding the Neural Circuits That Control the Speed of Locomotion

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden have uncovered the molecular logic underpinning the assembly of spinal circuits that control the speed of locomotion in adult zebrafish.
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Viruses Can Latch Onto One Another

"MiniFlayer" is the first known instance of a satellite virus that does not possess a gene enabling it to access its host's DNA. To do this, it requires help from "MindFlayer", which it attaches to.
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Genome Data Reveals Fresh Insights Into the Evolution of Cats

Researchers have uncovered new information about the history of cat evolution explaining how cats evolved into different species and shedding light on how different genetic changes in cats relate to survival abilities like the ability to smell prey.
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Images Prove Magnesium Ions Interact With CRISPR Enzyme

High-resolution, time-lapsed images have shown how magnesium ions interact with the CRISPR-Cas9 enzyme while it cuts DNA, illustrating its role in chemical bond breakage and DNA cutting.
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Gulf War Illness Depletes Vital Energy Production in White Blood Cells

A new study has shown that Gulf War Illness reduces the energy produced by white blood cells, creating a measurable biochemical difference in veterans with the disease.
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