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… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even … have found that polar algae rely on dissolved zinc to photosynthesize. Thomas Mock, a marine microbiologist at the … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …

… comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: …