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It's the first time a synthetic eukaryotic genome has been constructed in full, following on from successes with simpler bacteria organisms.It's a proof-of-concept for how more complex organisms, like food crops, could be synthesized by scientists. Scientists manipulated SynXVI to get yeast growing at elevated temperatures.

1 day ago · These ecosystems move at a tectonic pace. Scientists estimate that some cells in the deep biosphere divide only once every thousand years. An iron oxide microbial mat that develops in the outflow channels from the boreholes drilled at the Soudan Underground Iron Mine in northern Minnesota.Cody Sheik

3 days ago · Synthesizing new proteins – the building blocks of biological life – is a scientific field of immense potential, and a newly developed AI model promises to create instructions for new proteins way beyond those found in nature. Scientists in the US have used EvolutionaryScale Model 3 (ESM3) to ...

4 days ago · In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth.. As part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the spacecraft not only spent two years orbiting and imaging the asteroid, it also collected a precious sample of dust and small rocks from Bennu's rubbly surface.

5 days ago · With all that excess energy already decimating wildlife en masse, leaving millions hungry from destroyed crops, and exacerbating diseases and other health conditions, it's hard to fathom how much worse this will rapidly get.. Aftermath of the floods in Valencia, Spain, 20 October 2024. (David Ramos/Staff/Getty Image News) "Policy makers and wider society should be aware that the rate of global ...

6 days ago · The researchers' work supported earlier studies showing norepinephrine caused blood vessels to contract rhythmically over pulses lasting around 50 seconds, followed by a subtle oscillation in blood volume throughout the brain. (Hauglund, Cell, 2025) This relationship between neurotransmitter fluctuations and changing blood volumes was far more pronounced while the mice were in a non-dreaming ...

6 days ago · The findings – made by researchers Vera Schulte‐Pelkum from the University of Colorado Boulder and Deborah Kilb from the University of California San Diego – help resolve a perplexing mystery on how our planet generates the lighter portions of its crust from the dense mix of minerals churning beneath.

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Researchers in Australia have found a whole new type of cell that fills a major hole in our understanding of how the mammal body heals. For over a century, scientists have hypothesized that a cell like this existed – and now, an adult version has been found at last, hiding in …