SMiLE-seq: A new technique speeds up genetics
Credit: Alina Isakova/EPFL Scientists at EPFL have developed a technique that can be a game-changer for genetics by making the characterization of DNA-binding proteins much...
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Metastatic pancreatic cancer ‘reprogrammed’ for malignancy
Metastatic pancreatic cancer -- cancer that has spread from the pancreas to other tissues and is responsible for most patient deaths -- changes its metabolism...
Self-assembling particles brighten future of LED lighting
Credit: Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy Just when lighting aficionados were in a dark place, LEDs came to the rescue. Over the past decade, LED technologies --...
Common crop chemical leaves bees susceptible to deadly viruses
Credit: Julia Fine, Penn State A chemical that is thought to be safe and is, therefore, widely used on crops -- such as almonds, wine...
Nanoscale view of energy storage
Credit: L.A. Cicero In a lab 18 feet below the Engineering Quad of Stanford University, researchers in the Dionne lab camped out with one of the...
Intensive animal production may boost flu pandemic threat
Credit: Steve Hinchliffe Mass livestock production is driving molecular changes in diseases that could lead to human pandemics, according to an expert from the University...
China develops world’s brightest VUV free electron laser research facility
A team of Chinese scientists announced on Jan. 15 that they have developed a new bright VUV FEL light source, the Dalian Coherent Light Source...
E-waste in East and Southeast Asia jumps 63 percent in 5 years
Credit: United Nations University The volume of discarded electronics in East and Southeast Asia jumped almost two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is...
Microbes rule in ‘knee-high tropical rainforests’
Credit: Francois Teste Rainforests on infertile wet soils support more than half of all plant species. Shrublands on infertile dry soils in southwestern Australia, jokingly...
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to climate change
Credit: © Ashwin Ravikumar, The Field Museum. The world's forests are crucial to slowing climate change, but they're often destroyed to make room for farms,...
Tiny plants with huge potential
Credit: Photo: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena Jena (Germany) Wolffia globosa, a tiny, rootless duckweed, or water lens, apparently has what it takes to achieve great things....
BBSRC BRAVO: Optimizing the performance of Brassica crops
(John Innes Centre) A new five-year project BBSRC Brassica, Rapeseed and Vegetable Optimisation (BRAVO), will receive funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council....
Can we produce a better wheat crop to feed the world? Single to multiple wheat genomics
Credit: Pixabay Entering a 'wheat pan-genomics' era from single to multiple wheat DNA references, the Earlham Institute (EI) aims to diversify one of the world's...
This bay in Scandinavia has world record in carbon storing
Credit: colorbox Forests are potent carbon sinks, but also the oceans' seagrasses can store enormous amounts of carbon. A little bay in Denmark stores a...
Conservation practices may leave African indigenous populations behind
Conservation and logging groups in Central and West Africa are failing to fully incorporate local concerns into management, marginalizing the livelihoods of the local population,...
