How do people choose what plants to use?
There are about 400,000 species of plants in the world. Humans use approximately 10-15% of them to cover our basic needs, such as food, medicine...
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Crop achilles’ heel costs farmers 10 percent of potential yield
Credit: Don Hamerman/Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Scientists assumed leaves at the top of a plant would be the best at turning higher...
Trees supplement income for rural farmers in Africa
Credit: Daniel Miller URBANA, Ill. - Trees may be easy to spot on the plains of Africa but they are often overlooked as a source...
Bioinvasion is jeopardizing Mediterranean marine communities
Credit: Z. Fayer. Non-indigenous species (NIS) are harming indigenous species and habitats in the Mediterranean Sea, impairing potentially exploitable marine resources and raising concern about...
Insects and umami receptors
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Insects, like mammals including humans, sort chemicals by taste into a few categories and use this information to...
Your Android device’s Pattern Lock can be cracked within five attempts
Credit: Lancaster University The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just five attempts - and more...
On target: UNC researcher arms platelets to deliver cancer immunotherapy
Credit: Photo courtesy of UNC-NC State Joint Biomedical Engineering Program. After surgery to remove a cancerous tumor -- even if the surgery is considered "successful"...
Using simulation tools to optimize soft robotic systems
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan.23, 2017 -- Simulation is a valuable tool to improve the energy efficiency of machines and...
Synthetic nanoparticles achieve the complexity of protein molecules
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Chemists at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that synthetic nanoparticles can achieve the same level of structural complexity, hierarchy and accuracy...
Hearst Foundation funds TGen research into cancer-related ‘wasting syndrome’
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Jan. 23, 2017 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has received a $175,000 grant from the Hearst Foundation to study how...
Microscopic submarines for your stomach
Tiny "submarines" that speed independently through the stomach, use gastric acid for fuel (while rapidly neutralizing it), and release their cargo precisely at the desired...
How nicotine acts on the brains of schizophrenic patients
Several studies have indicated that schizophrenic patients are likely to show a high level of nicotine dependence. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, Inserm...
Lithuania joins the EMBO Installation Grants scheme
EMBO Programme Manager, Gerlind Wallon, explained, "EMBO Installation Grants encourage talented young group leaders to establish laboratories in countries which might otherwise lose their top...
MacKinnon lab charts the anatomy of three molecular channels
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics/The Rockefeller University Using a state-of-the-art imaging technology in which molecules are deep frozen, scientists in Roderick MacKinno..
Spanish scientists create a 3-D bioprinter to print human skin
Credit: UC3M This research has recently been published in the electronic version of the scientific journal Biofabrication. In this article, the team of researchers has...
