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Upcycling excess carbon dioxide with tiny microbes

Shehryar JoyiaAugust 31, 2024

While some microbes can make people sick or spoil food, others are critical for survival. These tiny organisms can also be engineered to make specific molecules. Researchers reporting in ACS...

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Cornell Feline Health Center: Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) treatment in the USA

Shehryar JoyiaAugust 28, 2024

This webinar features Dr. Sally Coggins in collaboration with the Cornell Feline Health Center. This webinar provides information on Compounded GS-441524, which is now available in the USA and is...

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Researchers uncover the secrets of 'plant puberty'

Shehryar JoyiaAugust 23, 2024

Researchers have identified the genetic changes linked to why plants go through a developmental change similar to "puberty" at different rates, a discovery which could lead to better crop nutrition....

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Researchers call for genetically diverse models to drive innovation in drug discovery

Shehryar JoyiaAugust 17, 2024

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have unveiled a new approach to drug discovery that could revolutionize how we understand and treat diseases. Their recent commentary in the Aug.14 issue...

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Reduce, reuse, 're-fly-cle'

Shehryar JoyiaAugust 14, 2024

Black soldier flies are now commercially used to consume organic waste -- but genetic modifications proposed by bioscientists could see the insects digesting a wider variety of refuse, while also...

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New genetically engineered wood can store carbon and reduce emissions

Shehryar JoyiaAugust 14, 2024

Researchers at the University of Maryland genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy intensive processing. Made from traditional wood, Engineered wood...

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Baker Institute for Animal Health: Mandi de Mestre & The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation

Shehryar JoyiaAugust 8, 2024

Mandi de Mestre, the Dorothy Havemeyer McConville Professor of Equine Medicine at Baker Institute for Animal Health and in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Cornell University College of...

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Cornell Feline Health Center: 2024 Fred Scott Feline Symposium Event Recap

Shehryar JoyiaAugust 7, 2024

The Fred Scott Feline Symposium is an annual professional development symposium offered and organized by the Cornell Feline Health Center. The preeminent conference on feline health, the Fred Scott Symposium...

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Researchers are closing in on a mouse model for late-onset Alzheimer's

Shehryar JoyiaJuly 27, 2024

Mice don't get Alzheimer's -- and while that's good news for mice, it's a big problem for biomedical researchers seeking to understand the disease and test new treatments. Now, researchers...

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Research sheds light on the role of PTPRK in tissue repair and cancer

Shehryar JoyiaJuly 27, 2024

Receptor protein tyrosine phosphatases are cell membrane-localised proteins. They are regulators of cell-cell contacts and are also considered likely to be tumour suppressors but the specifics of how they function...