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- Unprecedented screen of 500,000 compounds reveals new candidates for malaria prevention drug
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06 December 2018 — More than 600 promising new antimalarial drug candidates that inhibit the malaria parasite at an earlier stage in its lifecycle than most current drugs have been identified from a screen of over 500,000 chemical compounds.
- Corals and their microbiomes evolved together
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29 November 2018 — Corals and the microorganisms they host have evolved together for hundreds of millions of years. Understanding this long-term relationship could add fresh insight to the fight to save the Earth’s embattled coral reefs.
- Lizards quickly adapt to threat from invasive fire ants, reversing geographical patterns of lizard traits
- 29 November 2018 — Some lizards in the eastern U.S. have adapted to invasive fire ants—which can bite, sting, and kill lizards—reversing geographical trends in behavioral and physical traits used to avoid predators.