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June 7, 2021 —Bdelloid rotifers are multicellular animals so small you need a microscope to see them. Despite their size, they're known for being tough, capable of surviving through drying, freezing, ...
Feb. 28, 2022 —In humans and other eukaryotes, two principal epigenetic marks are known. A team has discovered a third, novel epigenetic mark -- one formerly known only in bacteria -- in bdelloid rotifers, small ...
Jan. 15, 2021 —Researchers successfully created a larger strain of zooplankton by creating mutations with a heavy ion beam, which contributes to improving the survival rate and growth of juvenile fish in ...
Apr. 6, 2022 —Earthworms are a welcome sight for gardeners and farmers because the wriggling invertebrates recycle nutrients from soil, making them more accessible to plants. As worms burrow, they consume almost ...
Jan. 14, 2021 —Researchers have developed a highly sensitive technique to quantitatively evaluate the extent of cytoskeleton bundling from microscopic images. Until now, analysis of cytoskeleton organization was ...
Sep. 8, 2020 —Australian rodents skulls all correspond to one simple, size-dependent shape that is more than ten million years old but it turns out this lack of change is the secret behind their survivor ...
Sep. 11, 2020 —Measuring the temperature of objects at a nanometer-scale has been a long challenge, especially in living biological samples, because of the lack of precise and reliable nanothermometers. An ...
Mar. 18, 2022 —Researchers show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximizing their strength and their ...
Aug. 26, 2021 —Microscopic roundworms may hold the key to understanding what is happening in the brain when the instinct of an animal changes in order to ...
Sep. 7, 2020 —A team of scientists has just announced the creation of a new type of meta-DNA structures that will open up the fields of optoelectronics (including information storage and encryption) as well as ...