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Nature New research from the Monell Center reveals humans can use the sense of smell to detect dietary fat in food. As food smell almost always is detected before taste, the findings identify one of...
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View ArticleBats use water ripples to hunt frogs
Nature Related images(click to enlarge) Ryan Taylor/Salisbury University As the male túngara frog serenades female frogs from a pond, he creates watery ripples that make him easier to target by rivals...
View ArticleLal Teer and BGI jointly announced the complete sequence of water buffalo
Nature Lal Teer Livestock Limited, an associate of LalTeer Seed Ltd., the largest seed company in Bangladesh with strong hybrid research program, and BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization,...
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Nature "Where do new genes come from?" is a long-standing question in genetics and evolutionary biology. A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, published Jan. 23 in...
View ArticleFrom one cell to many: How did multicellularity evolve?
Representative diverse origins of multicellularity are shown on a highly redacted and unrooted phylogenetic diagram of the major eukaryotic clades (modified from a variety of sources). In the...
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Nature Related images(click to enlarge) University of Leicester 'Credit: University of Leicester' The circadian clock is a molecular network that generates daily rhythms, and is present in both plants...
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Nature Related images(click to enlarge) Aimin Liu lab, Penn State University A team of researchers from Penn State University and the University of California has discovered a protein that is required...
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