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The researchers found that muscle with nerves released more of the brain-boosting factors than muscle without nerves. Pictured, from left: Professor Joon Kong and students Kai Yu Huang, Yujin An and Sehong Kang.
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Nerves prompt muscle to release factors that boost brain health
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Coralie Salesse-Smith (right) and Steve Long have proven in a model crop that an increase in mesophyll conductance can be engineered, and that it leads to an increase in photosynthesis.
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Engineered increase in mesophyll conductance improves photosynthetic efficiency in field trial
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RiPP
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Researchers discover a new natural product, a RiPP-fatty acid hybrid molecule
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Jonathan Sweedler (left) and Fan Lam
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Painting a molecular portrait of the brain with mass spectrometry and deep learning
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Yong-Su Jin
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Microbial division of labor produces higher biofuel yields
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Charles Schroeder
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Charles Schroeder
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