Breeding for heat tolerance is possible w/ this new study showing response of milk production to changing heat load in multibreed cattle. #climatechange @sruc @ilri #Collaboration sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The public sector spent £3.4 billion with management consultants in FY23/24. Dig into this growing market with our new report:

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1. Europe's Nutriscore "healthy food" rating system ranks Coca-Cola zero sugar as "B" (consume frequently). But olive oil is a "D" (meaning, for a healthy diet, consume infrequently). 2. Nutriscore assumes that whenever you consume olive oil you always swig 100ml - every time.

Wow, *someone* is upset they didn't come in the top 5 Social History schools in Western Devon 🙄

Feral 😼 and domestic 😺 cats don’t just differ in behaviour; their gut microbiomes are also distinct. These differences could even play a role in shaping their unique behaviours... 🤔. Congrats for the wonderful effort, team! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Or read it at Scientific Reports nature.com/articles/s4159…

Really pleased that PSR stops clubs spending beyond their means

Published today in nature, we describe an approach for single-molecule protein reading on Oxford Nanopore arrays. By utilizing ClpX unfoldase to ratchet proteins through a CsgG nanopore, we achieved single-amino-acid sensitivity. nature.com/articles/s4158…

The spectrum of medical discovery: from "AI will do it" all the way to "Gorillas already did it"

The rumen microbiome shows a stable core, w/ 515 microbial genera & 417 genes, linked to key production traits like ADG, feed intake & CH4 emissions. Results show reliability of single-point sampling for predicting host performance. #Microbiome Genus ABS nature.com/articles/s4159…

Wealth tax advocates talk about everything except the actual wealth taxes that have existed across the world. Almost all raised a pittance, hit the middle class more than the ultra-wealthy, and were abolished.

Winners of the PacBio SMRT Grants for #metagenomics and #16S have been announced! We had 300+ applicants for metagenomics this year 🤯. The diversity of projects was incredible, and many are convinced #HiFi produces the best metagenome assemblies. pacb.com/blog/2024-micr…

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Martin Hunt has made Incremental release 2024-08 on AllTheBacteria - adds 507k assemblies taking us up to 2.44 million in total: github.com/AllTheBacteria… is there, please use and publish with it! allthebacteria.readthedocs.io/en/latest/inde… 1/n

Yeah, they got AI to do their homework 🤦