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Researchers led by Dr. Xu Mingkai from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a ...

Long cast as villains, some protists, such as Blastocystis, are potentially beneficial to human health.

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The study identified 230 new giant viruses and 530 novel functional proteins, shedding light on their interactions with ...

Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off ...

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