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Researchers from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) have characterized the structural ...
Researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish Technological Institute have taken a new approach in the search for enzymes ...
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For the first time, important features of the Antarctic coastal zone have been mapped at high resolution around the continent ...