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Plant-Based "Beef" Is Good News for the Environment but Less so for Jobs
Plant-based alternatives to beef have the potential to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but their growth in popularity could disrupt the agricultural workforce, threatening more than 1.5 million industry jobs, new economic models show.
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“Sticking” Cancer Cells in Place to Preventing Their Spread Around the Body
A monoclonal antibody that binds to cell adhesion molecules to "stick" cells in place could be used to prevent metastasis as a cancer treatment in the future.
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New Atlas Maps the Continuum of Embryo Development in Fruit Flies
Using fruit flies, scientists have constructed the most complete and detailed single-cell map of embryo development in any animal to date.
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Baboons Borrowed One Third of Their Genes From Cousins
New genetic analyses of wild baboons in southern Kenya reveals that most of them carry traces of hybridization in their DNA. As a result of interbreeding, about a third of their genetic makeup consists of genes from another, closely-related species.
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New Way To Calculate Environmental Impact of Ammonia Production Developed
Ever wondered about the carbon impact of growing your dinner? Scientists have just come up with a new way to calculate part of it.
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Monoclonal Antibody Highly Safe and Effective Against Malaria
One injection of a candidate monoclonal antibody (mAb) known as L9LS was found to be safe and highly protective in U.S. adults exposed to the malaria parasite, according to results from a National Institutes of Health Phase 1 clinical trial.
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Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Mixtures Found To Cause Hepatic Toxicity
Researchers have identified that endocrine disrupting chemicals, in the mixtures that they occur in consumer products, cause liver toxicity as they are metabolized.
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Low-Calorie Sweetener Created That Could Also Be Good to Your Gut
In the search for a better sweetener, researchers have found a low-calorie mixture that is as sweet as table sugar and, in lab experiments, feeds “good” gut microbes.
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Hop Aroma and Consequently Beer Impacted by Growing Environment
A study has found that beers brewed with the same variety of hops grown in different US states have different chemical properties and aroma profiles.
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Scientists Engineer E. coli From Stool Samples To Develop New Drugs
Researchers have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria isolated from stool samples to express therapeutic genes of interest, with the potential of transforming bacteria into resident medicine-producing factories within the gut.
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