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Medicine
fromScienceDaily
1 week ago

Brain fat, not just plaques, may be the hidden driver of Alzheimer's

Excess fat accumulation in microglia impairs their protective function in Alzheimer's, and breaking down that fat restores brain immune defenses.
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO

And, well, it worked remarkably well. The plants carrying all the genes for the McG cycle weighed two to three times as much as control plants that only had some of the genes. They had more leaves, the leaves themselves were larger, and the plants produced more seeds. In a variety of growing conditions, the plants with an intact McG cycle incorporated more carbon, and they did so without increasing their water uptake.
Agriculture
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