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Scientists Reverse Coral Bleaching in Record Time
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In Short: However, the study also found that prolonged tadalafil treatment significantly increased cell proliferation and survival, reducing cell death at all time points.
In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have shown that corals can recover from bleaching within seven weeks when briefly exposed to healthy corals.
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, demonstrates that life-giving algae can flow from healthy corals to bleached corals, kickstarting the recovery process.
Danny Collins, a PhD student at the University’s Doerr School of Sustainability, explained that all corals are animals that can multiply by producing clones that grow together to form vast, reef-building colonies.
Collins noted, “We see something similar in humans. Organ transplants are often successful if the donor is your identical twin.”
The experiment revealed that gaps of just a few millimeters between pairs of coral fragments—healthy and bleached—prevented the bleached fragments from recovering.
This breakthrough opens new possibilities for restoring coral reefs damaged by global warming.
These findings suggest its potential use as an adjuvant pharmacological therapy in the treatment of muscle-wasting disorders.
Scientists have also identified Leopardus tilcayo, a small wild cat in Bolivia’s Yungas cloud forests, as the first new living cat species formally named and described in more than a century.
NBC News reported that Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a National Geographic Explorer who co-authored the study, said, “This time, it’s a cat. That’s really novel. And it hasn’t happened in 100 years.”
Scientists are also closely monitoring an active volcano, given the number of people on and around it.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials found that women who listened to music while breastfeeding produced more breast milk both immediately and over time.
This research underscores the potential benefits of music in addressing physical and emotional challenges that can trigger psychological stress.
What's confirmed
- In just a few days, life-giving algae flow from healthy corals to bleached corals, kickstarting the recovery process. (Danny Collins via SWNS) In a laboratory setting, researchers have shown that corals can fully recover from bleaching within seven weeks through brief contact with healthy corals. (Danny Collins via SWNS) In the experiment, gaps of just a few millimeters between pairs of coral fragments – one bleached, one healthy – prevented the bleached fragments from recovering. (Danny Collins via SWNS) It is the first time scientists have observed bleached corals on the brink of death fully recover through brief contact with healthy clones.
- Coral bleaching has been reversed at record speed using a new method.
- They say the breakthrough, published in the journal Science Advances, opens new possibilities for restoring coral reefs damaged by global warming.
What's still developing
- "Prolonged tadalafil treatment significantly increased cell proliferation and survival, reducing cell death at all time points," write the researchers in their published paper.
- Given how many people are on and around this well-and-truly active volcano, scientists are keeping a very close eye on what it's up to.
- Scientists were shocked when they received the first images of Martian gullies.
- And according to a new analysis, there are far more of them than scientists had realized.
- Scientists have long known that Mercury’s interior was shrinking: for the past 4.5 billion years, the planet has contracted as it cooled from its fiery origins.
- The planet Mercury is shrinking far faster than we thought The planet’s “wrinkles” give scientists a clue into how the world is contracting in size Everyone gets wrinkles eventually—even planets.
- Scientists believe the tilcayo cat likely evolved from a common ancestor of "tiger cats" around 1.4 million years ago.
- “We didn’t have specimens in museums. It had never been collected before,” study co-author Tadeu de Oliveira said.
- Scientists do not yet know how many tilcayo tiger cats remain in the wild.
- Scientists uncover the molecular switch that reshapes aging muscle One of the most stubborn puzzles in the biology of aging concerns a change that happens inside nearly every human body: as we grow older, our muscles become weaker and more easily fatigued, yet at the same time they quietly transform their internal composition, shifting away from the fast, powerful fibers of youth and toward slow-twitch fibers that rely most heavily on the very cellular machinery that is failing.
- Scientists say the rise was driven primarily by ischemic strokes, the most common type of stroke.
- URBANA — A native of Urbana is among the many scientists involved in the launch of The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.