Tea Plant Genome Sequencing Completed to Open Door to Tea Flavors
In China, scientists have sequencing the genome of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, which is more complex than a coffee plant genome, to better...
New Gene Editing Approach Speeds Up Precision Medicine
In Virginia, researchers have found a way to analyze gene mutations for cancer patients more quickly than ever before so that medicines and treatments...
Genomic data used for cockroach evolution history
In Japan, researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and Australia-based University of Sydney have traced key evolutionary time points of the...
Omicia Acquires Spiral Genetics to Integrate Genome Technology for Precision Medicine
In California, Omicia, which provides software tools for fast processing and analyzing of genomic data, acquired Seattle, Washington based Spiral Genetics. Spiral Genetics develops...
Looking to potatoes’ past to prepare for the future
In Michigan, Michigan State University researchers found a set of common genes and important genetic pathways that have helped potatoes adapt over thousands of...
Grow your own paint? Could happen using genetic coding of nature’s colors
In the United Kingdom, researchers from the University of Cambridge and Dutch company Hoekmine BV are unlocking the genetic code behind some of the...
Silicon Valley Meets Agriculture with Tuckaway Farms Use of Technology
In New Hampshire, Tuckaway Farms owner Dorn Cox demonstrates how he uses technology including precision ag, his smartphone, and drones to help run his...
A step closer to human cloning? Two cloned monkeys created in China
In China, two healthy, cloned monkeys were born after having been created with the same method that was famously used with Dolly the sheep...
Palladium + Gallium = Cool Catalyst for High Temperatures
In Germany, researchers added palladium to gallium and what happened was beautiful chemistry. The liquid catalyst is different from other catalysts because the reactants...
Four New Infection Fighting Blood Cells Discovered Using Genomics
In Massachusetts, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used new single-cell genetic techniques to discover four new types of while blood cells that...