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Night Watch: Infrared Cameras Reveal the Secret First Ten Days of Zoo-Born Duiker Calves
In the quiet hours after closing time at Frankfurt Zoo, infrared cameras recorded something rarely seen by human eyes: the…
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Movement-Proof Wireless Power Brings Battery-Free Soft Implants Closer to the Clinic
One of the most stubborn obstacles in implantable medicine is not the implant itself but the battery that keeps it…
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Chemists Use Vibrational Fingerprints to Sieve Carbon-13 Straight from CO2
Carbon-13 is one of the most quietly indispensable tools in modern science. Because it is a stable, non-radioactive isotope of…
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Transposon tool maps the essential genes of diverse phages
Bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, yet for most of the genes packed into their compact genomes,…
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Light-Patterned DNA Tags Give Single-Cell Sequencing a Sense of Place
Every cell in the body carries essentially the same genome, yet what distinguishes a neuron from a liver cell is…
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Fungal Partners Supercharge Cyanobacteria to Bind Toxic Mine Sand Into Living Crusts
Mine tailings are among the most inhospitable landscapes humans have created: vast expanses of crushed quartz sand with virtually no…
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Two Molecular Heart Failure Types Revealed by Deep Protein Maps of the Failing Heart
Heart failure has always been classified by its causes: a blocked artery here, a stiffened or enlarged heart muscle there,…
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Zero-Dimensional Semiconductor Design Eliminates Defects for Sharper X-ray Imaging
X-ray imaging is one of medicine’s most powerful windows into the human body, and its usefulness rests on a class…
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Spatial Hi-C Maps 3D Genome Folding Directly Inside Brain Tissue
Every cell in the mammalian brain carries the same genome, yet neurons in the cerebellar granule layer behave nothing like…
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New CRISPR-Based Tool Enables Genome-Wide Mutagenesis of Bacteriophages
Researchers at the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka in New Zealand have developed a CRISPR-based method for systematically…