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How plant roots sense and react to soil flooding
While we already knew that plant roots were capable of sensing many individual soil characteristics (water, nutrients and oxygen availability), we…
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Placenta in females, muscle mass in males: the dual heritage of a virus
It was already known that genes inherited from ancient retrovirusesThe particular feature of retroviruses is that they possess an enzyme that permits…
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Malaria and toxoplasmosis have an Achilles heel from plants
To survive, the parasites responsible for malaria and toxoplasmosis depend on mechanisms inherited from the plant world. This is what a team of…
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The keys to a major process in DNA repair
Researchers from the Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS/University of Paris Diderot), the Institute of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS/CNRS…
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A virtual brain helps decrypt epilepsy
Researchers at CNRS, INSERM, Aix-Marseille University and AP-HM have just created a virtual brain that can reconstitute the brain of a person…
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