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Natural selection also increases the adaptability of the organism

[ad_1] Everywhere we look in the natural world, there is evidence of natural selection: the resin armor of a lodgepole pine cone evolved to defend itself against seed-hungry birds and squirrels, or a giraffe’s long neck was evolutionarily favored to reach high vegetation that the competition cannot touch. Natural selection …

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A plant immune receptor: four are enough to tango

[ad_1] IMAGE: Tetrameric assembly of the RPP1 resistosome shown from the surface. The four RPP1 monomers are labeled and shown in different colors: ATR1 is shown in green; BB-loops that mediate formation … sight More Credit: Jijie Chai Although separated by millions of years of evolution, plants and animals have …

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Same visual system for all primates

[ad_1] The smallest primate in the world reveals the incredible preservation of our visual system through millions of years of evolution. The gray mouse lemur, the smallest species of primate, has excellent eyesight. More than a fifth of its cerebral cortex is devoted to visual processing to accommodate enough pixel …

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Artificial intelligence unravels one of the great challenges of biology: Eyewitness News

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence unravels one of the great challenges of biologyEyewitness News Artificial intelligence solves the crucial problem of fighting disease decades ahead of schedulePopular mechanics AI makes tremendous progress by predicting how proteins fold – one of biology’s biggest challenges – promising rapid drug developmentThe conversation in the United …

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What space does to the astronaut’s body

[ad_1] Scott Kelly became famous for spending a total of 340 days on the International Space Station (ISS), the longest time a US astronaut has spent in space. Its mission now provides researchers with fundamental information about what happens to a human body during such a long-term stay in orbit. …

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