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Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA
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Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA

Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion years ago. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, the “workhorses” of life essential to nearly every living process. But proteins cannot replicate or […]
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Bumble bees balance their diets with surprising precision
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Bumble bees balance their diets with surprising precision

Move over gym rats. Bumble bees are now the true masters of macros. In the first long-term, community-level field study of wild bumble bee nutrition, a team of ecologists led by Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden discovered that wild bees aren’t just flitting from flower to flower, collecting pollen at random. Instead, they […]
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Scientists unlock nature’s secret to superfast mini robots
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Scientists unlock nature’s secret to superfast mini robots

A collaborative team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Ajou University in South Koreahas revealed that the unique fan-like propellers of Rhagovelia water striders — which allow them to glide across fast-moving streams — open and close passively, like a paintbrush, ten times faster than the blink […]
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500-million-year-old “squid” were actually ferocious worms
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500-million-year-old “squid” were actually ferocious worms

Remarkable fossils found in North Greenland have helped researchers solve a 500-million-year-old puzzle surrounding squid-like ancestors. It was previously thought ancient organisms called nectocaridids, which bear a resemblance to squid, were a type of cephalopod – marine molluscs with tentacles and a prominent head. But scientists, co-led by the University of Bristol, have now shown […]
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Extinct human relatives left a genetic gift that helped people thrive in the Americas
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Extinct human relatives left a genetic gift that helped people thrive in the Americas

A new study provides fresh evidence that ancient interbreeding with archaic human species may have provided modern humans with genetic variation that helped them adapt to new environments as they dispersed across the globe. The study, published in Science, focused on a gene known as MUC19, which is involved in the production of proteins that […]
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Most of Earth’s species came from explosive bursts of evolution
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Most of Earth’s species came from explosive bursts of evolution

The British evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane is said to have quipped that any divine being evidently had ‘an ordinate fondness for beetles’. This bon mot conveyed an important truth: the ‘tree of life’ – the family tree of all species, living or extinct – is very uneven. In places, it resembles a dense thicket of […]
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Ancient predators and giant amphibians found in African fossil treasure trove
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Ancient predators and giant amphibians found in African fossil treasure trove

An international team of paleontologists has spent more than 15 years excavating and studying fossils from Africa to expand our understanding of the Permian, a period of Earth’s history that began 299 million years ago and ended 252 million years ago with our planet’s largest and most devastating mass extinction. Led by researchers at the […]
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Scientists uncover the lost shelduck that chose walking over flight
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Scientists uncover the lost shelduck that chose walking over flight

The discovery of yet another unique animal species from Rēkohu Chatham Islands illustrates how the physical qualities of an animal are influenced by its surroundings. New research led by the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka describes a new, extinct shelduck whose ancestors arrived on the islands 390,000 years ago. While this may seem […]
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Scientists unlock the gene that lets bearded dragons switch sex
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Scientists unlock the gene that lets bearded dragons switch sex

August 19 marks the publication by two different studies presenting the near-complete reference genomes of the central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps), a widely distributed species of dragon lizard common in central eastern Australia and popular as pets in Europe, Asia, and North America. This species has an unusual trait for an animal species: whether this lizard […]
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Commerce Department Singles Out Harvard for Bayh-Dole March-In Rights Enforcement – Duane Morris Life Sciences Law

There has been much concern and discussion about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s recent letter to Harvard University indicating the U.S. government’s exercise of its “march-in rights” for government-funded research resulting in IP owned by Harvard under the Bayh-Dole Act. Under the Bayh-Dole Act, recipients of U.S. government research contracts can own […]
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Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA

Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA

Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion years ago. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, the “workhorses” of life essential to nearly every living process. But proteins cannot replicate or […]
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Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA

Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA

Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion years ago. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, the “workhorses” of life essential to nearly every living process. But proteins cannot replicate or […]
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