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Not just DNA, proteins: CCMB team finds lipids also guide evolution

Scientists’ understanding of lipids is limited to their role as things that hold proteins. A study from Swasti Raychaudhuri’s lab challenges this view ​Scientists’ understanding of lipids is limited to their role as things that hold proteins. A study from Swasti Raychaudhuri’s lab challenges this view  Science Science News | Latest Updates on Scientific Discoveries | The…

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China set for Shenzhou-20 spaceflight launch

The mission will also bring with it zebrafish, planarians and streptomyces as research objects to carry out three life science experiments ​The mission will also bring with it zebrafish, planarians and streptomyces as research objects to carry out three life science experiments  Science Science News | Latest Updates on Scientific Discoveries | The Hindu

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Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops

As the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference kicks off in Glasgow, virus expert Prof Emma Thomson says new technologies are boosting science’s ability to fight novel strains of infectious diseases Prof Emma Thomson is someone who knows a thing or two about pandemics. As the recently appointed director of the Medical Research Council, University of…

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Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – why you should quit your job to make the world a better place

A bracingly hopeful call for high-flyers to ditch corporate drudgery in favour of something far more ambitious This is not a self-help book,” the author tells us, firmly. Appearances might suggest otherwise: it is written and presented almost entirely in the familiar style of that genre, with largish print, short sentences, snappy maxims in italics…

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