To Be or Not To Be GMO: That is the Question Facing Indian Mustard...
In India, the genetically modified debate continues as a group of seven farmers’ unions petition to the Prime Minister to allow the implementation of...
Mysterious Mars streaks probably not water and microbes after all NASA changes position about...
In Washington, DC, NASA published a report stating what they originally thought was water on Mars is more likely to be just markings in...
Cloned Dog Meets Mom and Act Like Old Friends
In Russia, a piece of ear was taken from a rare Yakutian Laika dog to provide the biomaterial needed to clone her. Yakutian Laika...
Pearl millet genome sequencing could help millions of people
In India, a global team of 65 scientists from 30 research institutions, called the International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, decoded and sequenced...
Pouch Pathogen Protection for Your Fruits and Veggies
In Florida, scientists at the Agricultural Research Service are working with Worrell Water Technologies on a pouch that prevents pathogens from growing on fruits...
Army Scientists Discover Way to Produce Hydrogen Fuel with Aluminum Nanomaterial
In Maryland, U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists noticed a bubbling reaction when they added water to a nano-galvanic aluminum-based powder during regular lab experimentation,...
NIH awards $18.9M for genome sequencing research in clinical care
In Washington D.C., the National Institutes of Health is giving $18.9 million for researchers that will help speed up genome sequencing in clinical care....
Good news for semi-conductor and biomaterial industries – Chemists develop metal-free method to control...
In Japan, chemists at the Nagoya Institute of Technology report a metal-free method to control cationic polymerization that provides a new framework for higher...
FDA approves first gene therapy in U.S. to target mutated genes
In Washington, DC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec-rzyl), a new gene therapy, to treat children and adult patients with...
Biomaterial Virginia Tech professor arrested for defrauding NSF grants
In Ohio, Yiheng Percival Zhang, a professor at Virginia Tech’s school’s department of biological systems engineering, is in a Roanoke jail waiting to appear...