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Researchers develop a new toolkit in fruit flies to study Zika virus
To study how Zika virus proteins hijack and disrupt host developmental pathways during infection and disease progression, scientists have generated a toolkit of transgenic flies expressing all ten Zika virus proteins.
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Fungi drive ice formation by excreting small proteins
An international team of researchers explored the characteristics and properties of fungal ice nucleators, revealing that they are made up of small protein subunits and play a role in both promoting and inhibiting ice growth.
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Lumen Bioscience wins historic $1.5 million Wilkes Center Climate Prize
The Seattle-based biotech company has developed a natural solution to eliminate the microorganisms in the cow gut that produces methane gas, a major cause of global warming.
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mRNA vaccines significantly reduce severity of Delta, Omicron COVID-19 infections
People who have received several doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine are more likely to have milder illnesses if infected with Delta or Omicron variants than those who are unvaccinated.