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  Why dirty farm plastic matters: Cleaner mulch film could cut landfill waste and fossil fuel use

  phys.org - Shawn Vestal

  Nearly a billion pounds of plastic film mulch is used in American agriculture each year, and most of it is dumped into landfills. New research from …

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  Fifty-year protein mystery breaks open as acid-driven water loss comes into view

  phys.org - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

  Proteins systematically lose their protective hydration shell when their environment becomes more acidic. Until recently, this was just a theory. …

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  Famous wildlife coexistence scheme is slipping due to frozen funding

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  A celebrated scheme for human-wildlife coexistence is now at risk of failing due to lack of long-term government investment, new research has …

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  Enzymes that assemble into droplets can speed up cellular reactions, biologists find

  phys.org - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Within the past decade, biologists have discovered that one strategy cells use to keep their contents organized is a phenomenon known as phase …

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  New 'SMArT' platform makes gene editing in hematopoietic stem cells more efficient and safer

  phys.org - Telethon Foundation

  A team of researchers led by Luigi Naldini at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget) has developed a new strategy to …

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  Synthesized peptides can slip into cells to block hard-to-target protein interactions

  phys.org - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

  Many diseases are driven by proteins interacting with each other inside cells. But blocking these interactions with drugs is difficult because …