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An under-researched mechanism in the fast-moving field of epigenetics
A key epigenetic mark can block the binding of an important gene regulatory protein, and therefore…
Fast, accurate way to check peanut plants for healthy traits
The lengthy process of breeding better peanut plants can be sped up by using a biophysics…
Video: One billion stars and counting—the sky according to Gaia's second data release
Launched in 2013, ESA’s Gaia satellite has been scanning the sky to measure the positions, distances…
Preventing infectious swine disease spread with field-based portable device
The impact of swine diseases and other livestock disease outbreaks extends beyond animal sickness and mortality…
Coronavirus shows we must get serious about the well-being of animals
COVID-19 raises crucial questions about how best to move forward from the pandemic and its many…
Nanoscale optical pulse limiter facilitated by refractory metallic quantum wells
In the past several decades, physicists have conducted deep laboratory investigations into nonlinear optics, plasma physics…
Toxin family binds to sugar receptors on human cells to cause damage
New Griffith University research has found that sugars decorating human cells allow toxins, produced by disease-causing…
Australia's life expectancy stagnates, inequality widens
Growing socioeconomic and geographical inequalities are contributing to a stagnation of Australian life expectancy, new research…
Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation
The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth…