Kenya Science News API

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            "title": "Gardener Watches Cocoon In Her Backyard For 10 Months - Then A Miracle Happens",
            "description": "After a cocoon sat in a woman's backyard, she began to wonder whether it would ever hatch.",
            "content": "Last September, Portland resident Tiffany Garner and her boyfriend saw two girls walk past their house, pick up something bright green and place it in their yard. Intrigued, Garner went to check out what the girls had found — and was shocked by what ... [2758 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/gardener-watches-cocoon-in-her-backyard-for-10-months-then-a-miracle-happens",
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            "title": "Genomes of Europe’s Last Neanderthals Analyzed",
            "description": "LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a statement released by Leiden University, Marie Soressi of Leiden University […]",
            "content": "LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a statement released by Leiden University, Marie Soressi of Leiden University and her colleagues analyzed the genomes of 27 Neanderthals who lived shortly before the species went extinct. These remains were recove... [1208 chars]",
            "url": "https://archaeology.org/news/2026/06/25/genomes-of-europes-last-neanderthals-analyzed/",
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                "name": "Archaeology Magazine",
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            "title": "A family of archaeal hibernation factors that bind in tandem and protect ribosomes in dormant cells",
            "description": "Under nutrient limitation or stress, ribosome hibernation factors inactivate and protect ribosomes. Although ribosome hibernation plays an important role in microbes, we lack a complete understanding of this process in archaea. Here, we identify a family of hibernation factors, which we designate as single ribosomal subunit inhibitors (SriA-SriD), from the methanogenic archaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans. All four sri genes are encoded in an operon and each Sri protein inhibits protein synthesis in vitro. Deletion of sri genes in M. acetivorans impaired growth recovery after prolonged stationary phase and also led to depletion of the small ribosomal subunit. Cryo-EM structures show that Sri proteins bind to the ribosome in tandem and form conserved protein-protein interfaces. Sri is broadly distributed across archaeal phyla and sri genes frequently co-occur. Together, these findings establish Sri proteins as a distinct group of hibernation factors that protect ribosomes during dormancy and expand our understanding of ribosome hibernation in archaea. Hibernation factors preserve ribosomes during cellular dormancy. Here, the authors identify a family of archaeal hibernation factors and use genetic, biochemical, and structural studies to show how these factors inactivate and protect ribosomes.",
            "content": "This work was supported by the NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials, CHE-2002182. M.C.W. is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Genetic Dissection of Cells and Organisms Training Program trainee (National Institutes of ... [1426 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74727-0?error=cookies_not_supported&code=51bd3f7e-cba6-49ac-8a8f-8f3a02e1272d",
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                "name": "Nature",
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