What evolved first—our brain or gut?

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The Overlapping Plagues Quietly Devastating American Forests

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Plasmonic coating on bacterial surfaces paves the way for rapid sepsis diagnosis

A research team led by senior researcher Minyoung Lee and principal researcher Sunggyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), has developed a label-free surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) analysis technology that rapidly detects extremely low concentrations of viable bacteria by directly growing plasmonic metal nanostructures on and around bacterial cells.

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Indonesia fires have burned nearly 2 million hectares: Monitor

Fires in Indonesia that have caused a regional haze crisis burned through over 1.9 million hectares (4.7 million acres) between January and the end of September this year, a monitor analyzing satellite imagery said on Monday.