Uganda Science News API

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            "title": "Label-free technique unlocks secrets of bacterial shape-shifting",
            "description": "Scientists have long known that bacteria come in many shapes and sizes, but understanding what those differences mean has remained a major challenge, especially for species that can't be grown in the lab.",
            "content": "Scientists have long known that bacteria come in many shapes and sizes, but understanding what those differences mean has remained a major challenge, especially for species that can't be grown in the lab.\nNow, a study led by Nina Wale, an assistant p... [3941 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2025-12-free-technique-secrets-bacterial-shifting.html",
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            "title": "Fossil hunters find tracks of animals from about 3 million years ago - a first in South Africa",
            "description": "These tracksites appear to contain the first recorded Pliocene vertebrate tracks described from southern Africa.",
            "content": "South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago.\nOver the past 15 years, our research group at the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience at Nelson Mandela University... [6778 chars]",
            "url": "https://theconversation.com/fossil-hunters-find-tracks-of-animals-from-about-3-million-years-ago-a-first-in-south-africa-267567",
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                "name": "The Conversation",
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            "title": "The biodiversity, genomics, ecology and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi",
            "description": "The class Agaricomycetes represents the mushroom-forming fungi; it is a diverse group within the Basidiomycota with an evolutionary history spanning over 350 million years. Interest in Agaricomycetes has grown considerably over the past decades because of their important roles in nature, their developmental biology, and their use in green technologies and medicine. In this Review, we discuss how genomics approaches have contributed to important breakthroughs in understanding their ecology, evolution, development and conservation. We also explore the central challenges constraining further research. We postulate that the surge in omics exploration of Agaricomycetes over the past decade will be followed by a postgenomic era combining experimental, reverse genetics, ecological and functional genomics tools, helping to resolve the recalcitrant questions surrounding the complex biology of these fungi. Mushroom-forming fungi have along evolutionary history and a suite of important ecological roles. This Review highlights advances in understanding of Agaricomycetes evolution and ecology driven by genomic research.",
            "content": "Lutzoni, F. et al. Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis. Nat. Commun. 9, 5451 (2018).\nHibbett, D. S. After the gold rush, or before the flood? Evolutionary morphology of mushroom-forming fungi (Agaricomycetes) in the ear... [35113 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00107-z?error=cookies_not_supported&code=e7d83853-1357-4e78-a83a-cb1426e334fc",
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                "name": "Nature",
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