‘Turbocharging’ photosynthesis in corn hikes yield
ITHACA, N.Y.- Scientists from the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and Cornell University have boosted a carbon-craving enzyme called RuBisCO to turbocharge photosynthesis in corn. The...
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Stanford students deploy machine learning to aid environmental monitoring
Credit: NASA As Hurricane Florence ground its way through North Carolina, it released what might politely be called an excrement storm. Massive hog farm manure...
Journey to precision cancer treatment takes off with new passports tool
Cancer research and the future of precision cancer treatment will be accelerated by a new tool developed by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The...
Expert: Keep up with latest discoveries through automated updates in reporting genetic test results
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Maybe the genetic test report your doctor ordered says your DNA contains many "variants of unknown significance." Currently, up to...
Super-resolution microscopy builds multicolor 3D from 2D
Credit: Christian Sieben/EPFL Super-resolution microscopy is a technique that can "see" beyond the diffraction limit of light. The technique has garnered increasing interest recently, especially...
Delayed pregnancy — heart health risks for moms and sons, study shows
Knoxville, Tenn. (October 1, 2018)--Delaying pregnancy may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in both women and their children, with boys at higher risk of...
Exercise helps bones, but not metabolism, in ovarian function loss
Knoxville, Tenn. (October 1, 2018)--Exercise may reduce the risk of osteoporosis associated with the loss of ovarian function, but fitness may not protect against related...
Pioneering biologists create a new crop through genome editing
Crops such as wheat and maize have undergone a breeding process lasting thousands of years, in the course of which mankind has gradually modified the...
High CO2 levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects
Credit: Abigail Swann Plant scientists have observed that when levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their...
3D bioprinting of living structures with built-in chemical sensors
Credit: Photo: Anja Lode, TU Dresden An international team of researchers led by Professor Michael Kühl at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen has...
Decline in native fish species — Invasive species on the increase
Credit: J. Geist/ TUM The majority of Bavaria's watercourses are in poor ecological condition. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now...
A research project in the French West Indies for repurposing Sargassum seaweed
(CNRS) A research team including the CNRS and l'Université des Antilles has just launched an 18-month research project, largely financed by Ademe, on the brown...
Disease causing mutation found in French-Canadians
Credit: Ziv Gan-Or A team of Canadian scientists, including researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) has discovered the first French-Canadian founder...
Removal of ovary for fertility preservation found safe in girls as young as 5 months
In the first publication from the U.S. on surgical techniques and outcomes of single ovary removal for fertility preservation in girls, surgeons from Ann &...
Songbird data yields new theory for learning sensorimotor skills
Songbirds learn to sing in a way similar to how humans learn to speak -- by listening to their fathers and trying to duplicate the...
