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Life Sciences
A fungus is far more like you than a bacterium is. That is why there are almost no antifungal drugs
Medicine has dozens of antibacterial drug classes and essentially four antifungal ones. The reason is biological: fungal cells are built like ours. Here is what that costs us, and why farm fungicides are blunting a hospital drug.
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Life Sciences
How your genes change what they do without changing what they are
Your DNA sequence stays the same all your life, yet which genes are switched on shifts with what you eat, breathe and do. Here is how gene expression and methylation work, and what a new preprint on two Bornean communities suggests about how fast that can change.
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Life Sciences
How photosynthesis actually works
Photosynthesis turns sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. Here is how a leaf actually does it — the two-stage process inside the chloroplast — and why almost all life depends on it.
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Biotechnology
CRISPR gene editing, explained simply
CRISPR lets scientists edit DNA with a precision that once sounded like science fiction. Here is how the 'find and replace' of the genome actually works — and where it is already being used.
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