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Graphical abstract. Credit: Protein & Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1093/procel/pwad054 Dysregulated R-loops can cause stalled replication forks and telomere instability. However, how R-loops are recognized and regulated, is still not well understood, particularly at telomeres. In a new study, researchers used proximity-dependent biotin identification (BioID) technology to identify the ILF3 interactome and discovered that ILF3 interacts … Read more

Credit: CC0 Public Domain “Where is my life going?” “Who do I want to be?” As future-thinkers, adolescents spend significant time contemplating these types of questions about their life goals. A new study from the University of Houston shows that as people grow from teenagers to young adults, they tend to change the importance they … Read more

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Firms that receive research and development (R&D) credits are much more likely to acquire venture capital (VC) backed startups, alongside investing in their own R&D efforts, according to new research by ESMT Berlin. These findings, available as a working paper, emerge from research by Merih Sevilir, professor of finance at ESMT … Read more

Artist’s illustration of HD 104067 b, which is the outermost exoplanet in the HD 104067 system, and responsible for potentially causing massive tidal energy on the innermost exoplanet candidate, TOI-6713.01. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Can tidal forces cause an exoplanet’s surface to radiate heat? This is what a study accepted to the Astronomical Journal hopes to address … Read more

Schematic illustrating the mechanism of Antarctic Slope Undercurrent formation. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl0601 New research has uncovered a feedback loop that may be accelerating the melting of the floating portions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, pushing up global sea levels. The study, titled “Antarctic Slope Undercurrent and onshore heat transport driven by … Read more

Heavy rains have hit southern China, prompting tens of thousands to be evacuated, including in Qingyuan (pictured). Four people are dead and 10 others missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated from areas hit by torrential downpours. Heavy rain has descended upon the vast southern province … Read more

Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) staff cleans up piled up waste from the road side at Ikoyi in Lagos on January 2024. Negotiators from 175 countries are meeting from Tuesday in Canada to nail down a binding global treaty to end plastic pollution with many sticking points to be resolved five months after the … Read more