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Public research university in Burlington, Vermont, whose Larner College of Medicine and Cancer Center conduct biomedical and genomics research.
Scientists at SUNY Brockport, UVM and Oregon State found lake trout embryos in Lake Champlain gained thiamine by hatching while paired lab embryos gained none. The study measured vitamin levels, not survival, so it has not yet tested whether wild hatchlings escape the deficiency seen in hatcheries.
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Years of cancer trials that boosted antioxidants failed, so a University of Vermont team tried stripping mesothelioma cells of one antioxidant enzyme instead, and an early-phase trial reports disease control in two-thirds of patients.
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A Nature study of eight Myotis genomes argues pathogen adaptation, longevity and cancer resistance run through shared, pleiotropic genes, redirecting where aging and cancer researchers might look.
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Cornell researchers identified the species of 1.8 million NYC trees at 82% accuracy, including the two-thirds of canopy nobody had surveyed. Planting targets now have to name names.
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Whole-genome sequencing of brown bullheads from Lake Memphremagog found tumors that are clones of each other, not of their hosts. It is the fourth transmissible cancer known.
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