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A deep-sea digger
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After 5 years of sample collection and analysis our paper examining the impacts of an industrial #DeepSea mining trial on seafloor #biodiversity is published! Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Checkout our latest article about fighting poison with poison found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
A deep-sea hydrothermal vent worm detoxifies arsenic and sulfur by intracellular biomineralization of orpiment (As2S3)
The deep-sea worm Paralvinella hessleri thrives in extreme hydrothermal vents, tolerating high arsenic and hydrogen sulfide levels. This study shows that it detoxifies both by forming orpiment (As₂S₃)...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay!
Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis
The partnership between corals and their intracellular algal symbionts has long been a textbook example of mutually beneficial association. In this essay, Mikhail Matz argues for an updated view in which the coral acts more as a farmer of algal cells to support its own growth.
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August 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Scientists have finally pinpointed the cause of a marine die-off of unprecedented scale

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Mystery of billions of sea-star deaths solved at last
Experiments identify a bacterium as the cause of sea-star wasting disease, which has devastated populations along the western coast of North America.
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August 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Nature research paper: Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

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Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources sustaining hadal fauna.
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August 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Nature research paper: Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants

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Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants - Nature
A study reports whole-genome sequences for 490,640 participants from the UK Biobank and combines these data with phenotypic data to provide new insights into the relationship between human variation and sequence variation.
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August 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Nature research paper: Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

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Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature
Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the physiological level.
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August 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The role of holobiont composition and environmental history in thermotolerance of Tropical Eastern Pacific corals #coral #holobiont #symbionts www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Nature research paper: Programmable control of spatial transcriptome in live cells and neurons

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Programmable control of spatial transcriptome in live cells and neurons - Nature
CRISPR-TO, a system for programmable control of spatial localization of cellular RNAs, is presented and enables functional investigation of endogenous RNA localization in diverse living cells.
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May 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Multiple-omics analyses of the Alviniconcha #holobiont reveal multi-faceted adaptations to deep-sea hydrothermal vents

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Multiple-omics analyses of the Alviniconcha holobiont reveal multi-faceted adaptations to deep-sea hydrothermal vents
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents are ‘extreme’ environments with constantly fluctuating physicochemical conditions – but dense animal aggregations thrive primarily through symbiosis with chemoautotrophic b...
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May 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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What are the most-cited research papers of all time?

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These are the most-cited research papers of all time
Some studies have received hundreds of thousands of citations, Nature’s updated analysis shows.
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April 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Nature research paper: Spatial multi-omics reveals cell-type-specific nuclear compartments

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Spatial multi-omics reveals cell-type-specific nuclear compartments - Nature
A genomic barcoding scheme called two-layer DNA seqFISH+ enables the simultaneous mapping of more than 100,000 loci and has been used to identify cell-type-specific subnuclear compartments in the mouse brain.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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China has announced international cooperation for Mars Sample Return Mission (Tianwen-3). Launch planned ~2028 (!) Samples return to Earth ~2030. Objectives: Life detection, Mars geology, atmosphere studies. www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6758823/n67...
火星取样返回任务（天问三号） 国际合作机遇公告
火星取样返回任务（天问三号）国际合作机遇公告.pdf
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March 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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So beautiful work for HGT in insect symbioses
March 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Genomic divergence across the tree of life | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Genomic divergence across the tree of life | PNAS
Nucleotide sequence data are being harnessed to identify species, even in cases in which organisms themselves are neither in hand nor witnessed. Bu...
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March 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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1/ Our review on sequencing-based #microbiome analysis is in the Dec 24 issue of Nature Reviews Genetics. We explore DNA/RNA-sequencing approaches for studying microbiome structure and function, highlighting the biological insights sequencing-based microbiome research offers.
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Sequencing-based analysis of microbiomes - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Review, Pinto and Bhatt provide an overview of DNA-sequencing and RNA-sequencing approaches that can be used to study the composition, structure, and function of microbiomes and discuss the bi...
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November 19, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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Amazing
March 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social
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February 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots

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Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks
Nature - Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.
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March 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Check out the latest issue of The Innovation Geoscience!!!
Volume 3, Issue 1 is now online!
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#Geoscience #research #ClimateCrisis #pollution #carbon #emissions #remotesensing #Satelite #paleoclimate #monsoon #drought
February 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Cold seep community painting- I was thinking this would make a nice back cover for the book. My fav is the anemone because it’s so dramatic and was fun to paint. 16x20 acrylic on canvas
#SciArt #deepsea #deepseacreatures #coldseep #acrylicpainting
A deep ocean cold seep community with mussels, tube worms, shrimp, purple, sea cucumber, squat lobster, and white sea anemone.
February 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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EasyMetagenome: A user‐friendly and flexible pipeline for shotgun metagenomic analysis in microbiome research
EasyMetagenome is a user-friendly shotgun metagenomics pipeline designed for comprehensive microbiome analysis, supporting quality control, host removal, read-based, assembly-based, binning, genome a....
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February 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization
Cells have evolved mechanisms to distribute ~10 billion protein molecules to subcellular compartments where diverse proteins involved in shared functions must assemble. Here, we demonstrate that prote...
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February 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Ancient genomes from modern Ukraine and Russia reveal the origins of the Yamna people, pastoralists who migrated from the Eurasian steppe to Europe 5,000 years ago, spreading their ancestry, culture and, probably, language

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Genetic and geographical origins of Eurasia’s influential Yamna culture
Ancient genomes from Ukraine and Russia reveal Yamna origins.
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February 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID
Climate change in the polar regions of our warming world is threatening to transform many of its features, such as this icy tableau in the Fish Islands off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. There is still much to learn about these places before we know better what those changes may be.
February 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM