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Scientists Discover The Genetic Switch to Induce 'Virgin Births' in Fruit Flies (www.sciencealert.com)
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Brain networks encoding memory come together via electric fields, study finds (news.mit.edu)
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How to manage stress during a PhD, when your research project involves working with lab animals? (academia.stackexchange.com)
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Interesting thread.

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Scientists genetically modify trees to produce more sustainable wood (interestingengineering.com)
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Chronic inflammation, neutrophil activity, and autoreactivity splits long COVID - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
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My friend from graduate school (first author here) pulled me in to do some machine learning in a really interesting dataset.

In brief, we found that there are (at least) 2 distinct causes of what are currently lumped together as "long covid".

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Sea snakes may have evolved to see colors again (www.eurekalert.org)
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Evolutionary Origins and Patterns of Diversification in Animal Brood Parasitism (www.journals.uchicago.edu)
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Ants estimate distance before building a ladder from their bodies (arstechnica.com)
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Growing Rat Neurons... To Play Video Games? (youtu.be)
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Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find (www.theguardian.com)
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All animal intelligence was shaped by just five leaps in brain evolution, new paper argues (phys.org)
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Discovery of 100 fatty acids opens new research paths (phys.org)
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Editing the genome with TARDIS: A new tool could help researchers build larger and more diverse populations of genetically modified roundworms and potentially other laboratory animals. (elifesciences.org)
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How one of nature's most fundamental molecules forms (phys.org)
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TissUUmaps is a browser-based tool for fast visualization and exploration of millions of data points overlaying a tissue sample. (tissuumaps.github.io)
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GitHub - openworm/OpenWorm: model of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), a microscopic roundworm. With only a thousand cells, the biology of this organism remains elusive. (github.com)
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Researchers from the University of Toronto Introduce scGPT: A Foundation Model for Single-Cell Biology based on Generative Pre-Trained Transformer Across a Repository of Over 33 Million Cells (www.marktechpost.com)
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An elegant new orchid is found hiding in plain sight (phys.org)
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New Species of Gliding Gecko Discovered in India (www.sci.news)
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American mink regrow their brains in a rare reversal of the domestication process (phys.org)
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Elite freedivers have brain oxygen levels lower than seals (phys.org)
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Natural pest control: Plants enlist their enemies’ enemies (knowablemagazine.org)
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Birds may ‘divorce’ because of promiscuity or long spells apart (www.theguardian.com)
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Monogamous birds switch partners for reasons similar to human breakups, scientists say

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Citric Acid Cycle (2020) by Drew Berry wehi.tv – #TCA #Krebs (www.youtube.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/516970

Visualization of the interior of the mitochondria. Gives an intuitive understanding of the nature of the randomness in biochemical environments.

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Potential CRISPR alternative gene-editing tool occurs naturally in animals (newatlas.com)
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