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Abu Dhabi to be the next hotspot for next generation algae biofuels
Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, a biotechnologist at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), has helped develop the first genome-scale metabolic model for an algal species. Salehi-Ashtiani is intent on using this model to explore Middle Eastern algae in the search for the ideal biofuel. The researchers modeled the metabolic network of the algae species Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a [...]
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Endangered species set for stem cell rescue
In a novel marriage of conservation and modern biology, scientists have created stem cells from two endangered species, which could help ensure their survival. The northern white rhino is one of the most endangered animals on Earth, while the drill – a west African monkey – is threatened by habitat loss and hunting. The scientists [...]
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Qatar Hosts Unique Quranic Botanical Gardens
The Quranic Botanical Garden in Doha, the first of its kind in the world, was officially inaugurated in September 2008 by HH Sheikha Mozah Nasser al-Misnad, at the Education City, thereby carving a historical milestone. The unique project was led off by the Qatar Foundation Chairperson, who planted a Sidra sapling at the proposed [...]
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Largest Water Body discovered in Universe
Astronomers have detected the largest water body in universe whose volume is enough to fill the earth’s oceans by more than 100 trillion times. The water body was found on a quasar, a powerful, old celestial object which feeds on a black hole, an object in space so dense that its escape velocity exceeds the [...]
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Extreme weather link ‘can no longer be ignored’
Scientists to end 20-year reluctance with study into global warming and exceptional weather events. Scientists are to end their 20-year reluctance to link climate change with extreme weather – the heavy storms, floods and droughts which often fill news bulletins – as part of a radical departure from a previous equivocal position that many now [...]
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