Seed banking not an option for over a third of threatened species
Credit: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Global Strategy for Plant Conservation says 75% of the world's threatened plant species will be ...
Month: November 2018
First discovery of adventive populations of Trissolcus japonicus
Credit: Elijah Talamas In the paper 'First discovery of adventive populations of Trissolcus japonicus', published in the Journal of Pest ...
VTT and Dyadic International presenting excellent results reached in development of a new fungal production platform C1 for vaccines and therapeutic proteins
Credit: Photo: Anne Huuskonen VTT and Dyadic International, Inc. ("Dyadic") (OTCQX: DYAI), today announced that VTT scientists will present the ...
Launch of global effort to read genetic code of all complex life on earth
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to sequence the genetic code, or genomes, of all 1.5 million known ...
New quantum criticality discovered in superconductivity
Using solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) techniques, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory discovered a new ...
Shortening the rare-earth supply chain via recycling
Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa - Modern life is closely intertwined with a set of 17 elements at the foot of ...
Training with states of matter search algorithm enables neuron model pruning
Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan - Artificial neural networks are machine learning systems that are composed of a large number ...
Exploring the structure and properties of new graphene-like polymers
A team of scientists from Siberian Federal University (SibFU) together with foreign colleagues described the structural and physical properties of ...
Alcohols as carbon radical precursors
Credit: Kanazawa University Alcohols play a pivotal role in organic synthesis because they are ubiquitous and can be used in ...
NUS researchers turn plastic bottle waste into ultralight supermaterial
Credit: National University of Singapore Researchers from the the National University of Singapore (NUS) have made a significant contribution towards ...
Molecular biology: Phaser neatly arranges nucleosomes
LMU researchers have, for the first time, systematically determined the positioning of the packing units of the fruit fly genome, ...
Researchers at IRB Barcelona explain the origin of the periodicity of the genome
Credit: Author: Iris Joval Granollers Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have found an explanation for ...
Russian physicists upgrade cheap diode laser for use in precise measurements
Credit: Pavlov NG et al./Nature Photonics Russian physicists have developed a method for drastically narrowing the emission spectrum of an ...
NIH greatly expands investment in BRAIN Initiative
The National Institutes of Health announces funding of more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million, through the Brain ...
Will there be enough water in the future?
Credit: Water Scarcity Atlas The average person in Europe uses 3000-5000 litres of water per day, of which the lion's ...
Ring-shaped protein complex wrangles DNA
Credit: Dana Krepel/Rice University Biological physicists at Rice University have a new cellular mechanics theory that rings true. The Rice ...
HKUST-Beijing Tiantan Hospital scientists bring new hope to brain tumor patients
Credit: HKUST sGBM is a rare type of brain cancer in adults. The incidence varies from 2 to 5 per ...
Lateral inhibition keeps similar memories apart
Credit: Espinoza et al When you park in the office car park, you usually have no problem finding your car ...
Nature of immune cells in the human brain disclosed
Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Amsterdam UMC have disclosed the nature of how T cells protect the ...
Scientists find a ‘switch’ to increase starch accumulation in algae
Credit: Sousuke Imamura Results from a collaborative study by Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tohoku University, Japan, raise prospects for ...
