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03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 19 evidence that plants aren’t merely eaves- dropping on one another, and that the emitter derives a ben ...

20 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com CHRIS STEVENS and Crop Plant Research in Germany who coauthored a perspective published alo ...

Fan chose to focus initially on a weed that seems to have evolved its crop- mimicking characteristics in China: barnyard grass ( ...

JORDAN R. BROCK way to see these results at the genetic level and the genomic level,” he says. The results line up nicely with t ...

G ene editing technologies have revolutionized the field of genetics, allowing researchers to make targeted changes to the DNA o ...

24 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com Genes that avoid X inactivation have roles in cancer and autoimmune disease. BY AMBER DANCE ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 25 F or a person with two X chromosomes, full expression of the genes on both could mean a disastrous do ...

donors didn’t seem to be a mosaic. “This one person really stood out,” recalls Tukiainen. Across all her tissues, “the active X ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 27 when analyzing human datasets: binding sites for the YY1 transcrip- tion factor were common near esca ...

BINDING SITES FOR CTCF (CCCTC- binding factor) are enriched in escapees as well as at the boundaries between silenced and active ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 29 to create an MS-like condition. No matter their gonads, XX mice were more susceptible to developing t ...

Along the US Atlantic Coast, rising seas are pushing saltwater inland, killing cedars, elms, and pines. The dead trees are a sym ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 31 T hey look like the skeletons of giants reaching for the s ky. Tall and ashen, stripped of their leav ...

MATT KIRWAN surrounds the land can be pushed upstream by the wind. In drought conditions, lots of water evaporates, leaving behi ...

a plastic sheet lined with neoprene and a por- table gas analyzer to measure emissions from dead trees. The goal is to see wheth ...

HOW SAL T TRANSFORMS THE LANDSCAPE Sea level rise is affecting a wide range of ecosystems, from forested wetland to farmland. As ...

SOUND: Here, saltwater can come into contact with marsh and wetland forest, especially as sea levels rise, pushing salty water f ...

© KERRY HYNDMAN ing wetlands with pumps and floodgates designed to keep water off their land.^4 In some places the intermittent ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 37 MATT KIRWAN rather than just a few years.” This strategy, he notes, could be applied to the countless ...

38 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com For decades, senescent cells were ignored. No w, as evidence mounts that they drive age-rel ...