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Researchers in Russia have developed an improved method for extracting a biologically active compound from brown algae, opening new possibilities for its use in healthcare, nutrition and biotechnology ...

Using state-of-the-art approaches coupled with bio- and cheminformatics and machine learning, researchers have succeeded in discovering new, bioactive components of the Baltic Sea Baltic Sea seaweed ...

Algae such as rockweeds are a fundamental part of marine ecosystems, providing habitat and food to many other marine organisms while also providing ecosystem services like oxygenation of the water. In ...

The staff of the Department of Mycology and Algology of the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, as part of a group of Russian scientists, analyzed which fungal toxins are ...

Algae such as rockweeds are a fundamental part of marine ecosystems, providing habitat and food to many other marine organisms while also providing ecosystem services. Algae produce oxygen as a ...

You may like them or not, but almost everyone knows them: brown algae such as Fucus vesiculosus, commonly known as bladderwrack, grow along the entire German coast. Giant kelp like Macrocystis or ...

It would be easy to distinguish between a chicken, a fish or an elephant. Yet, during their early stages of development, these species share a striking similarity. Although their embryos have distinct ...

Brown algae removes 550 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually and stores it in its slime for up to thousands of years, a study has found. While it primarily uses the carbon to ...

Over the past 2 and a half millennia, algae have been utilized by humans for a variety of uses including industrial products, food, and pharmaceuticals. They are economically important, being used in ...