Lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) maintain the specialized lipid compositions of organellar membranes1,2. In humans, many LTPs are implicated in diseases3, but for the majority, the cargo and auxiliary lipids facilitating transfer remain unknown. We…
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A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed
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A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe
Csiki-Sava, Z., Buffetaut, E., Ősi, A., Pereda-Suberbiola, X. & Brusatte, S. L. Island life in the Cretaceous — faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago….
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European Ceratopsian Dinosaurs Were Surprisingly Diverse In The Late Cretaceous
Contrary to previous suspicions, Europe probably had many species of ceratopsian dinosaurs, a clade of large herbivores whose most famous member is Triceratops. Ceratopsian fossils are common across North America and Asia, but their relative…
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Each New Year, Antarctic Scientists Move The Marker Of The Geographic South Pole
New Year’s celebrations are a little bit different in Antarctica. Under the relentless summer daylight and searing cold, the ragtag crew of souls who have found themselves at the planet’s southernmost point take part in an unusual but important…
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SKA-Mid telescope in South Africa achieves first fringes milestone-Xinhua
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) announced on Wednesday that the growing SKA-Mid telescope array in South Africa has achieved “first fringes” using two of its dishes, which demonstrates its operation…
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SKA-Mid telescope in South Africa achieves first fringes milestone-Xinhua
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) announced on Wednesday that the growing SKA-Mid telescope array in South Africa has achieved “first fringes” using two of its dishes, which demonstrates its operation…
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RNA-triggered Cas12a3 cleaves tRNA tails to execute bacterial immunity
Orthologue identification, phylogenetic analysis and sequence alignment
We used previously identified Cas12a2 protein sequences27 as queries for tBLASTn and BLASTp searches in the NCBI databases (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and the JGI…
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Astrobites at AAS 247: Day 2
X-ray and optical image of Kepler’s supernova remnant. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Pan-STARRS Welcome to the winter American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Phoenix, AZ! Astrobites is attending the conference as…
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