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| Viruses have helped to sculpture life and the world we live on |
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By 2019 Wall Scholar Curtis Suttle, a Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada at the University of British Columbia, where he shares an office with billions of viruses. The novel... |
| The frostier the flower, the more potent the cannabis |
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Cannabis flowers with the most mushroom-shaped hairs pack the biggest cannabinoid and fragrance punch, according to new research from the University of British Columbia. While the cannabis leaf is iconic, it’s the chemicals produced by the tiny, frostlike hairs on cannabis flowers that... |
| Collecting the Impossible moss: BC species key to charting 1 billion years of plant evolution |
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An international team of researchers have completed a massive effort to sequence genes from more than 1,100 plant species—an undertaking that saw UBC botanists collect rare mosses from remote corners of BC,... |
| Spawn of the triffid? Tiny organisms give us glimpse into complex evolutionary tale |
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Two newly discovered organisms point to the existence of an ancient organism that resembled a tiny version of the lumbering, human-eating science fiction plants known as ‘triffids,’ according to... |