1+ week, 4+ day ago  (280+ words) The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two major groups of living land vertebrates-amniotes and lissamphibians-which occupy markedly different ecological niches. Key hypotheses of vertebrate terrestrialization propose a plausible…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (216+ words) Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence tool called LA'SR that can rapidly identify previously overlooked proteins in microalgae - tiny organisms that produce much of the Earth's oxygen and support entire aquatic ecosystems. This breakthrough…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (105+ words) One of the central findings of the study was that inhibiting polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), a protein that can dynamically regulate gene activity and cell differentiation, is necessary for growing chimpanzee naive PSCs. Without this inhibition, the cells failed to propagate…...