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What happens when the coronavirus mutates?
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Flag leaves could help top off photosynthetic performance in rice
Claire Benjamin
The flag leaf is the last to emerge, indicating the transition from crop growth to grain production. Photosynthesis in this leaf provides the majority of the carbohydrates…
Model predicts where ticks, Lyme disease will appear next in Midwest
Diana Yates
By drawing from decades of studies, scientists created a timeline marking the arrival of black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, in hundreds of counties across 10…
Brain gene expression patterns predict behavior of individual honey bees
Diana Yates
An unusual study that involved bar coding and tracking the behavior of thousands of individual honey bees in six queenless bee hives and analyzing gene expression in their…
Light signal emitted during photosynthesis used to quickly screen crops
Claire Benjamin
An international effort called Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) aims to transform crops' ability to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into higher yields. To…
Antifungal drug improves key cystic fibrosis biomarkers in clinical study
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A drug widely used to treat fungal infections improved key biomarkers in lung tissue cultures as well as in the noses of patients with cystic fibrosis, a clinical study by…
Gene biomarkers indicate liver toxicity quickly and accurately
Marianne Stein
When agrochemical and pharmaceutical companies develop new products, they must test extensively for potential toxicity before obtaining regulatory approval. This testing…
Study tracks elephant tusks from 16th century shipwreck
Diana Yates
In 1533, the Bom Jesus – a Portuguese trading vessel carrying 40 tons of cargo including gold, silver, copper and more than 100 elephant tusks – sank off the coast of Africa…
Chancellor, Provost offer reflections on 1 million COVID-19 tests
Chancellor Robert Jones and Provost Andreas Cangellaris
It sometimes seems a million doesn’t command quite the same attention that it used to. It isn’t mathematically special. And in today’s society, it isn’t even unusually large.…