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Biology
Why community volunteers are essential to how New Zealand deals with the arrival of bird flu
Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Pacific Island countries are the only countries free of highly pathogenic avian influenza. The deadly avian influenza virus was first detected in the Southern Hemisphere in 2023 and has spread through South America to sub-Antarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. The virus is decimating wild bird populations around the world, with millions of dead birds…
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Other Sciences
Nobel Prize in Economics: How colonial history explains why strong institutions are essential to a nation’s prosperity
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics went to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their research into why there are such wide differences in prosperity between nations. In announcing the award, Jacob Svensson, chairman of the Economics Prize Committee, said: “Closing…
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Chemistry
Glowing proteins enable real-time 3D studies of essential enzymes
Graphical summary. Credit: Nature Chemical Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41589-024-01758-3 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new tool to use organoid models to study the protein kinase C (PKC) enzyme, which plays a critical role in cell growth, differentiation, and survival. Dysfunction of these proteins has been linked to many human diseases, including…
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