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1 month agoopenalexLife

One Letter in a Rice Plant's Machinery Overturns Decades of Assumptions about Poison and Yield

Scientists thought closing the door to cadmium meant closing it to nutrients too. They were wrong — and the fix was one amino acid wide.
1 month agoopenalexLife

The Cancer Gene You Knew Was Doing a Second Job You Didn't

Losing BRCA1 doesn't just scramble DNA repair. It hands cancer cells a metabolic key to slip out of the tumor and travel.