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Mirror image biomolecule helps marine sea squirts lose their tails: Resear
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Tsukuba [Japan], March 12 (ANI): A team, led by the University of Tsukuba, found that D-serine serves as a chemical signal that allows tissue migration in marine sea squirts when they lose their tails on transforming from tadpoles into their mature form.
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Study examines last day of dinosaurs
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Uppsala [Sweden], February 28 (ANI): Dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years and yet, questions still surround as to how massive creatures like them became extinct to such an extent that not even a trace of them is left now. Scientists have been pondering and researching this f
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Study finds zoos might be able to improve lives of animals
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Exeter [UK], January 27 (ANI): A recent study has found that zoos and aquariums could improve the lives of a wider range of their animals.
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Study finds lighted nets reduce bycatch of sharks
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 24 (ANI): A team of researchers has found that using lighted nets greatly reduced accidental bycatch of sharks, rays, sea turtles, and unwanted finfish.
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Shifting ocean closures best way to protect animals from accidental catch
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Seattle (Washington) [US], January 18, (ANI): Accidentally trapping sharks, seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles and other animals in fishing gear has been one of the biggest barriers to making fisheries more sustainable around the world. Marine protected areas -- sections of the ocean set
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Study shows antibiotic levels measurable in breath samples
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], September 22 (ANI): A team of engineers and biotechnologists at the University of Freiburg has for the first time shown in mammals that the levels of antibiotics in the body can be determined using breath samples.
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Prehistoric primates had a sweet tooth: Study
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [UK], September 18 (ANI): Dental fossils belonging to a species of prehistoric primate, Microsyops latidens, which date to the early Eocene, around 54 million years ago, display the earliest known evidence of dental caries in mammals, according to a recent study.
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Researchers find prehistoric primates had sweet tooth
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 13 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists found dental fossils belonging to a species of prehistoric primate, Microsyops latidens, which dates back to the early eocene (around 54 million years ago), display the earliest known evidence of dental caries in mammals.
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Birds, mammals evolve faster where land has risen most: Study
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 5 (ANI): A new study has found that the rise and fall of Earth's land surface over the last three million years shaped the evolution of birds and mammals, with new species evolving at higher rates where the land has risen most.
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Mammals dream about world they are entering
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 24 (ANI): As a newborn mammal opens its eyes for the first time, it can already make visual sense of the world around it. But how does this happen before they have experienced sight?
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Stem cells can use same method as plants, insects to protect against virus
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 9 (ANI): Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found a vital mechanism, previously thought to have disappeared as mammals evolved, that helps protect mammalian stem cells from RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and Zika virus. The scientists suggest this could one day
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Study uses AI to predict unknown links between viruses, mammals
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Liverpool [UK], June 25 (ANI): The findings of a new University of Liverpool study could help scientists mitigate the future spread of zoonotic and livestock diseases caused by existing viruses.
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