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‘Innovative’ GMO Impossible burger could help support US soybean growers, says USDA chief Sonny Perdue

Sonny Perdue may be a champion of agriculture and agribusinesses in all its forms. But even he isn’t immune to ...
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‘Semi-synthetic’ organism expands DNA base alphabet

Antonio Regalado | 
Every living thing on Earth stores the instructions for life as DNA, using the four genetic bases A, G, C, ...
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Insecticide resistance threatens to derail malaria control in Africa

Kate Kelland | 
The largest genetic study of mosquitoes has found their ability to resist insecticides is evolving rapidly and spreading across Africa, ...
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Evolutionary tradeoffs: How DNA works so living things have a ‘competitive advantage’ to survive

Jordana Cepelewicz | 
Evolution is a game of trade-offs. Every trait an organism inherits may have benefits and drawbacks; what matters to natural ...
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Hepatitis B treatable with unique new strategy—using bacterial DNA

Paul Offit | 
Two hepatitis B virus vaccines are currently on the market. Earlier in November, however, the Food and Drug Administration licensed ...
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Bacterial DNA used in innovative Hepatitis B vaccines

Paul Offit | 
Two hepatitis B virus vaccines are currently on the market. Earlier this month, however, the Food and Drug Administration licensed ...
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Non-antibiotic sepsis-fighting drug could save millions of lives

Devang Mehta | 
The state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) in southeast India is perhaps not the first place you’d expect to find a ...
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The leaves on the tree of life are almost all microbes

Mary Hoff | 
Planet of the insects? Heck no. Planet of the microbes. Science has long struggled with estimating how many species of ...
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Can the microbiome join DNA and fingerprints in the CSI toolkit?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Some scientists argue that our individual microbiomes are unique enough that they can be used to help identify the perpetrators ...
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Biopesticides: Creating a mosquito-fighting bacteria wasn’t easy—or fast

Hank Campbell | 
[A]fter decades of international scientific effort, a new mosquito biopesticide (a pesticide that uses natural bacteria) has been approved. And it only took a year and ...
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Could ‘superantibiotics’ save us from rising drug resistance?

David Cox | 
The need for new classes of antibiotics has repeatedly been emphasised, with researchers turning to some of the most extreme environments on ...
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The quest to make CRISPR gene editing as easy as a smartphone app

[Biohacker Josiah Zayner] lives and works in Oakland, California, where he's converted a house into a scientific lab. Here, he ...
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Gut microbiome could influence response to cancer treatment

Beth Mole | 
When [cancer] drugs work, the immune system tramples tumors into oblivion. But they don’t always work—in fact, cancer drugs can ...
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Deep freeze: Will climate change awaken long-frozen diseases?

Robinson Meyer | 
I visited Greenland because, lately, the land here has gone soft, and disquieting things threaten to wake in it. … ...
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How do you define ‘species’? Turns out, it’s not so easy

Susan Milius | 
At first glance, “species” is a basic vocabulary word school children can ace on a test by reciting something close ...
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Universally shared biodata could create powerful ‘internet of living things’

Eleonore Pauwels | 
Imagine students in universities becoming the first “sequencing line of defense” by detecting bacteria resistant to antibiotics and educating their ...
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Why Alzheimer’s patients have abnormal gut bacteria

Ross Pomeroy | 
People suffering from Alzheimer's disease have altered gut bacteria, a new study published in Scientific Reports shows. ... A team of researchers primarily ...
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Deteriorating bio-libraries house thousands of disappearing cultures and deadly diseases

Peter Smith | 
Freeze-dried and locked away in liquid nitrogen–filled vaults around the world are hundreds of thousands of microbial cultures. In the ...
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Women’s reproductive organs abound with microorganisms—studying them helping in disease research

Alessandra Potenza | 
Women's reproductive organs are home to plenty of microorganisms, and identifying them may help us improve women's health. Scientists have ...
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Time to stop treating men and women the same when it comes to drug treatments

Ben Locwin | 
Studies have shown that males and females metabolize drugs differently, suggesting we should be spending more time studying those differences ...
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De-extinction debate: Why we should bring back the woolly mammoth

Katherine Clover | 
De-extinction is just what it sounds like: taking a species that has gone extinct, and through cloning or genetic engineering, ...
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New species may be created by cellular ‘mitonuclear conflict’

Carrie Arnold | 
In the complex cells of humans and other organisms, two different genomes collaborate to sustain life. The larger genome, with ...
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Synthetic bionics: E. coli pills could boost body’s ability to absorb ammonia in the gut

Antonio Regalado | 
Synlogic of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company behind the unusual study, is testing what it calls “synthetic biotics,” or bacteria engineered ...
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Flu vaccine works better on some younger people—if you have the right genetics

Aimee Cunningham | 
Nine genes are tied to a strong immune response to the flu vaccine in people 35 and under, a new ...
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Edible ‘CRISPR pill’ could make harmful bacteria self-destruct

Emily Mullin | 
As resistance to antibiotics grows in the U.S., researchers are looking for new ways to fight germs like Clostridium difficile, a ...
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Modified polio virus could be used as cancer treatment

Andrew Masterson | 
A protein common on some types of cancer cell turns out to be the same one that in other circumstances ...
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Virus dangers: Zika, SARS, dengue, 24 others could be transmitted through semen

Mike McRae | 
A dig through the literature has uncovered evidence of 27 distinct viruses from a wide variety of families capable of ...
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