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Using a new large-scale data archive of animal movement studies, an international team including University of Maryland biologists found that animals are responding in unexpected ways to climate change. The archive contains data from studies across the global Arctic and sub-Arctic, an enormous region that is experiencing some of the most dramatic effects of global warming, including animal declines.

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With the pioneers of CRISPR gene editing technology just winning the Nobel prize in chemistry, Yiping Qi, associate professor at the University of Maryland (UMD), has received three new grants as a preeminent leader in enhancing CRISPR technologies in plants and crops. CRISPR is often thought of as “molecular scissors” used to cut DNA so that a certain trait can be removed, replaced, or edited for precision breeding purposes.