Researchers describe the first trial outside the laboratory of a transgenic approach to combating malaria. The study shows that a naturally occurring fungus engineered to deliver a toxin to mosquitoes …read more Source:: Science
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Endocrine-disrupting pesticides impair frog reproduction
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•In a new study, researchers have investigated how the endocrine-disrupting substance linuron affects reproduction in the West African clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis. The scientists found that linuron, which is used …read more Source:: Science
West African dolphin now listed as one of Africa’s rarest mammals
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•A group of scientists now considers a little-known dolphin that only lives along the Atlantic coasts of Western Africa to be among the continent’s most endangered mammals, a list that …read more Source:: Science