Stanford geneticist Greg Barsh and colleagues traced orange fur in cats to a 5-kilobase deletion in non-coding DNA just ahead of the Arhgap36 gene. The gap turned up in every orange cat they examined, evidence that the DNA controlling how strongly a gene is expressed can set a long-studied sex-linked trait.
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Kyushu University chemists made two metal-free radicals that fluoresce deep red and lift MRI phantom contrast about 2.5 to 4.5 times over earlier versions. The design is a possible route to MRI contrast without gadolinium, but it has not yet been tried in an animal.
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A Kyushu University team moved two laser spots on a carbon target to change the density and magnetic field feeding a reconnection layer. Once a current sheet had formed, the measured rates came out close anyway.
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Kyushu University researchers have specified how sensing films, self-healing materials and spoilage prediction would work as a single system that reads food condition in real time, though the assembled loop remains untested.
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Fukuhara's group at Kyushu pressurized a deep-sea rhodopsin and a land-dwelling one in the same rig, and only the deep-sea protein came back with its light absorption intact. Trimer formation is the proposed reason.
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Kyushu University fed shoreline isopods nothing but polystyrene board for a week and found the effect in their gut transcriptomes rather than in their survival, which puts real weight on the choice of control group.
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A randomised trial in Kushiro found interest rose a week later only when the lesson opened with what the wetland does for people. The study's author cautions against the obvious inference.
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