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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

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Soybean is a high-energy, high-protein crop that is indispensable as animal feed. Jong and his team use various tools and techniques from molecular biology and genetics to study B. Jong and his team have had great success investigating the biology of B. glumae and its interactions with rice. The genome of B.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes Published: Microbes are the world’s most brilliant chemists, able to turn simple sugars and other compounds into a vast array of complex chemicals. The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says.

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

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The enthusiasm and energy that emerging scientists bring to research is a constant rejuvenation! “An There is a lot of ‘tradition’ with regards to ideas and approaches, which I feel can sometimes impede our ability to move science forward efficiently. An ongoing challenge for my field is trying to buck the status quo.

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Behind the screens: the crystals that flow like rain down a windowpane

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He starts by considering some basic principles of physics – that the momentum and energy of a system are always conserved. The problem is that considering every possible effect that contributes to momentum or energy is complicated,” he explains. Everything in natural science can be reduced to physics.

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Can modern technology uncover the secrets of evolution?

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For example, sedimentary rocks deposited in low energy environments (e.g., As palaeontology draws on skills and knowledge from geology and biology, you can enter the field from either of these directions. in calm lakes not fast-flowing rivers) are more likely to contain fossils than lavas erupted from volcanoes.

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Where Does Driftwood Come From?A Journey from the Forest to the Bottom of the Ocean

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She has loved the natural sciences all her life, and is excited to create educational content that will inspire curiosity for the natural world in the next generation of scientists. Next time you see a piece of driftwood in the water, you can think of all of the amazing plants and animals it supports wherever it goes!

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Joanna is working with Nicole and Stuart on a project that involves an analytic technique called Energy-Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Michelle’s Research.