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Oct 22, 2024, 12:13 pm By NULLArmed with sterile tubes, students at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine fanned out across…Genetically modified chickens reveal testosterone's complex role in both male and female birds
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Oct 22, 2024, 11:19 am By NULLUsing plastic sheets for weed control, even under current best management practices, pollutes soil…Study suggests frogs and toads will face new risks as water habitats dry up due to global warming
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Oct 22, 2024, 10:10 am By NULLEndangered Atlantic right whales are venturing to new areas, researchers have found in a recently…Oriental hornets do not get sick or die when consuming very large amounts of alcohol, study shows
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Oct 22, 2024, 7:40 am By NULLResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences have developed a live imaging…Scientists uncover how transcription drives motion within the genome
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Oct 22, 2024, 4:19 am By NULLChile has launched a vaccine described as the first of its kind that sterilizes dogs for a year and…Pilot expeditions work to preserve the white shark in the Mediterranean Sea
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Oct 21, 2024, 8:00 pm By NULLA new genomic study of the endangered Oriental stork reveals that the population's genetic health is…Photosynthesis is under threat in an increasingly warm world, says researcher
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Oct 21, 2024, 3:21 pm By NULLA research team from Germany and the U.S. led by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has…
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