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Engineered Plant Receptors Could Help Cereals Resist Blast Fungus
Researchers at the John Innes Centre have shown how a recently found class of plant immune receptors spots blast fungus, and how to modify them to detect more than one threat.
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“Pac-Man” Enzyme Eats Bioplastic and Also Cuts Penicillin, Konstanz Team Reports
A new bacterial enzyme from forest soil can break down plant-oil bioplastics and also cleave penicillin in lab tests. The finding hints at a link between plastic digestion and antibiotic resistance.
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GLP-1 Drug Users Report Nail Detachment Four Times as Often, Survey Finds
A survey of 1,904 people presented in Vienna links drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy to nail detachment and hair loss. Researchers say it cannot prove the drugs are the cause.
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Webb Traces Record-Distance Radio Burst to a Small, Star-Forming Galaxy
A millisecond flash of radio waves from when the universe was about 3 billion years old is the most distant fast radio burst found. Webb located its faint home galaxy.
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Two Long-Legged Shelter Cats Are the First Confirmed Cases of Marfan Syndrome in Felines
Cornell researchers traced the condition in two brothers, Gary and Shaggy, to two altered copies of the FBN1 gene. The variant only partly disabled the gene, which may explain why they survived to adulthood.
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Golden Coral From Deep Off Costa Rica Is So Odd It Gets Its Own Family
Researchers surveying seamounts off Costa Rica found a yellow, tree-like coral unlike any known group. They named a new species, genus and family for it.
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Scientists Find a Hidden Drainage Route at the Back of the Mouse Eye
Researchers at UBC and the University of Toronto report a lymphatic pathway behind the retina in mice. It challenges a century-old belief and may inform research on glaucoma and macular degeneration.
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Webb Finds Dust From Mars-Sized Worlds Colliding Around Young Stars
Astronomers studied 21 rare “extreme debris disks” with the James Webb Space Telescope. Dust chemistry suggests about a third come from Mars-sized impacts.
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Webb Finds Evidence of an Atmosphere on Lava World HD 3167 b
A rocky planet 154 light-years away orbits its star in a day, yet the James Webb Space Telescope has found strong evidence that it holds an atmosphere.
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Pond Microbe From Oxford Rewrites Two “Stop” Signals in the Genetic Code
A single-cell sequencing test turned up a ciliate in an Oxford pond that reads two gene-ending codons as amino acids. Researchers call the combination previously unreported.