Catching CRISPR in action
Credit: Jin Liu and Zhicheng Zuo, UNT One of the most talked about biological breakthroughs in the past decade was the discovery of the genome...
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DNA duplicator small enough to hold in your hand
Loading video... Credit: Barb Cramer & Michael Todd, Vanderbilt University Imagine a "DNA photocopier" small enough to hold in your hand that could identify the...
CWRU directly measures how perovskite solar films efficiently convert light to power
Credit: Courtesy of Nano Letters Solar cells made with films mimicking the structure of the mineral perovskite are the focus of worldwide research. But only...
New Colombian plant discovered by Kew scientist honors Colombian president
A new plant species from Northeastern Colombia has been named Espeletia praesidentis, in honour of efforts made by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to build...
Can the ‘greening’ be greener?
Credit: Thomas Hesse The EU introduced the new "greening" instrument into the Common Agricultural Policy in 2015, with the intention to slow the rapid loss...
Eucalypts spotlight biosecurity failures
Credit: Treena Burgess The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. For more than 100 years, eucalypts--woody plants that...
‘Gene-silencing’ technique is a game-changer for crop protection
Ground-breaking research based on nanotechnology promises to help conquer the greatest threat to global food crops - pests and diseases in plants. Scientists develop a...
Double fish production while preserving biodiversity — can it be done?
Credit: Tarang Mehta, Earlham Institute Tanzania, perhaps best known for safaris over its vast open plains, has ambitious plans for diminutive freshwater wildlife with enormous,...
Contrary to decades of hype, curcumin alone is unlikely to boost health
Curcumin, a compound in turmeric, continues to be hailed as a natural treatment for a wide range of health conditions, including cancer and Alzheimer's disease....
Our galaxy’s black hole is spewing out planet-size ‘spitballs’
Credit: Mark A. Garlick / CfA Every few thousand years, an unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole at the center of the...
Farthest stars in Milky Way might be ripped from another galaxy
Credit: Marion Dierickx / CfA The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's...
A new type of monitoring provides information about the life of bacteria in microdroplets
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In the future, it will be possible to carry out tests of new drugs on bacteria much more efficiently using...
WPI researcher wins NSF CAREER Award to study how bacteria survive in stressful conditions
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - As a graduate student, Scarlet Shell spent four months in rural and urban clinics in Peru studying...
A surprise advance in the treatment of adult cancers
Montreal, Jan. 11, 2017 - A team of researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has found an epigenetic modification...
Antidepressant use increases hip fracture risk among elderly
Antidepressant use nearly doubles the risk of hip fracture among community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern...
