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increasing competition with higher trait dissimilarity.   – Functional Ecologists

In our new post Emily Holden, PhD candidate at University of Alberta (Canada), presents her work ‘Plant trait dissimilarity increases competitive interactions among co-occurring plants’. She talks...

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Article summary Early and precise diagnosis: Liquid biopsies, which analyse blood for disease markers, offer a non-invasive method to detect cancer early and precisely, potentially transforming cancer from...

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Article summary Resolution and sensitivity: Current analytical techniques like spectroscopy and crystallography have limitations in resolution and sensitivity. Advances such as electron diffraction and improved detector technology are...

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