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Mitochondrial study offers new insights into how our cells process RNA for energy production

Molecular reconstruction of the human mitochondrial RNase Z complex overlayed on a cryotomographic section with mitochondria from human cells. Credit: Genis Valentin Gese. Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have made a major discovery in how human cells produce energy. Their study, published in The EMBO Journalreveals the detailed mechanisms […]

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Trump’s Immigration Guy Offers Alternative to Family Separation: Deporting Entire Families

One of the most horrific and inhumane policies practiced by Donald Trump’s first administration was the separation of migrant families—a sadistic program that caused irreparable harm made even worse by the Trump White House’s refusal to pay for mental health services for the people it scarred. As of January 2024, i.e. years after the policy […]

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Genomic study offers hope for endangered Oriental stork

The Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana) is currently on the World Conservation Union’s endangered species list. A recent finding that this species is genetically healthy indicates that habitat protection could quickly remove this migratory bird from that list if action is taken now. Credit: Kim, Hyun-tae iNaturalis A new genomic study of the endangered Oriental stork […]

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Do disruptive climate protests work? Real-time survey finally offers answers

A Just Stop Oil activist hoists a banner during the group’s blockade of the M25 motorway, some sections of which carry more than 200,000 vehicles per day. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Disruptive and high-profile climate protestors can raise public support for conventional environmental groups, according to an unprecedented study that capitalized on activists’ closure of the […]