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Businesses face extinction unless they protect nature, major report warns

Experts call for urgent action by businesses to restore the natural systems that keep them running.

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AI model from Google's DeepMind reads recipe for life in DNA

It could transform our understanding of why diseases develop and the medicines needed to treat them, says researchers.

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Fundamentals of Evolutionary Genetics, by Masroor Elahi Babar, Muhammad Ashraf, from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (Feb 7).

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Computational Techniques for Biological Sequence Analysis by Saiyed Umer, Ranjeet Kumar Rout, Monika Khandelwal, Smitarani Pati, from CRC Press. (Jan 24).

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Feb 13 16:00No evidence that haplodiploidy favors the evolution of eusociality - Rosa Bonifacii, et al. (PNAS)
Feb 13 16:00Strategy evolution on temporal hypergraphs - Xiaochen Wang, et al. (PNAS)
Feb 13 14:03Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA Accumulates Insertions and Deletions with Age in Energetically Demanding Tissues by Edmundo Torres-González and others (MBE)
Feb 12 14:03Evolutionary remodeling of the FXR binding pocket drove functional divergence and ligand discrimination by Noriko Yamamoto and others (MBE)
Feb 12 14:03The mutation landscape of Daphnia obtusa reveals evolutionary forces shaping genome stability by Ruyun Deng and others (MBE)
Feb 12 14:03Amhy/Amhr2y-mediated sex determination in two distantly related teleosts relies on the conserved Alk3-Smad5 axis by Li Zhou and others (MBE)
Feb 12 14:03Cryptocercus genomes expand knowledge of adaptations to xylophagy and termite sociality by Alun R C Jones and others (GBE)
Feb 11 16:00Phylogenomic synteny reveals paleohexaploid-derived genomic blocks across Asteraceae - Tao Feng, et al. (PNAS)

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