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• Following the federal and state approvals, the company has now successfully sold and shipped its first order.
• "The registration of Calantha marks not just a milestone for our company, but a quantum leap for farmers, our food system and security, and people," said Andrey Zarur, Chief Executive Officer, GreenLight Bio.
• We are thrilled to witness the impending impact of this commercial chapter of our company in creating a more sustainable future."
• GreenLight Bio's breakthrough platform, capable of economically producing dsRNA, fuels its robust pipeline of additional innovative insecticides, fungicides and herbicides.

• The Drummond Puddle, as it was grandly known, was a watery hazard placed perfectly where converging footpaths funnelled a daily stream of victims to their doom.
• To the wonderment of the world, their fate was livestreamed over the internet to more than half a million viewers.
• We can all, surely, remember the joy of splashing in a puddle – a universal example of creative play and getting to know the environment.

Your own private pool

• The isolation and brief life of many of these mini-ponds keeps long-lived, larger predators and competitors at bay, opening up opportunities for more “live fast, die young” life.
• In the UK, the most famous examples are the fairy shrimps of puddles on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
• When rain fills a track in the dried mud, fairy shrimp eggs hatch almost immediately.

• The Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall supports a network of trackways that date back to pre-historic times.
• The clam shrimp had only previously been identified in a handful of sites in the north-eastern US.

Puddle problems

• As soon as the new build is started, however, these ponds are buried and lost.
• But research in urban areas of south-east Poland shows that single-celled algae such as diatoms and desmids thrive in these puddle environments.
• Studies in Brazil have also credited deforestation in the Xingu basin with driving “lentification” – creating water bodies that include puddles.
• Puddles are, however, not a positive substitute for the problems caused by urbanisation and habitat loss.

Planet puddle

• While we might be most familiar with the puddles of pavements and streets, there are natural puddle habitats too – and these are very widespread all over the planet.
• Puddles on ice sheets and glaciers called cryoconite holes are home to a cosmopolitan fauna of nematode worms, mites and the famously tough tardigrades.

• But in all cases, there is much more to puddles than meets the eye – not just tiny shrimps or marooned worms.
• Video coverage of the Drummond Pond in Newcastle in 2016 even captured some two-legged inhabitants that appeared to be large, mammalian and naked …

Mike Jeffries does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• This year, For A Bright Future recognizes three more individuals under the Single Parent Household Scholarship and honors their inspiring stories by providing the support they need to pursue their dreams.
• "There were many times in school when I struggled with navigating the ins and outs of being a first-generation college student, but winning the 2023 For A Bright Future Single Parent Household Scholarship reminds me to keep going because I have a village rooting for me!"
• "The Single Parent Household Scholarship is another way through which For A Bright Future tries to ensure that promising students in unique family circumstances are able to continue pursuing their dreams.
• We would like to thank Susie Hernandez, Board Member and Chair of the Scholarship Committee, and our volunteers for serving on the scholarship selection committee.

• Management to host conference call today, November 9, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. P.T.
• IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: TARS), whose mission is to focus on unmet needs and apply proven science and new technology to revolutionize treatment for patients, starting with eye care, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023, and recent business achievements.
• Saturn-2 data were delivered as encore presentations at the American Academy of Optometry and American Academy of Ophthalmology conferences.
• In the third quarter of 2023:
  The Company’s expansive disease education efforts continue to drive awareness among eye care providers (ECPs) and action in proactively diagnosing DB.