100,000 Genomes Project singing “Woah, we’re half way there”
In the United Kingdom, the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Genomics England today announced reaching the 50,000 whole human genome...
Drink Up That Cup of Joe – Coffee and Tea Could Help Your Liver
In The Netherlands, researchers found that drinking coffee and tea could improve your liver function and lower your risk of liver cirrhosis, a leading...
Bumblebee Brews – Bee and Wasp Based Yeasts Offer Wild Beer Flavors
In North Carolina, a new species of yeast for brewing tasty beers has been discovered from an unusual source – bees and wasps. While...
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...
Genome Identified When Corn Alerts Wasps to Come Help
In New York, researchers looked at 26 varieties of corn and have been able to determine which genome helps signal to parasitic wasps that...
Sentera launches FieldAgent agronomic platform
In Minnesota, Sentera launched their new FieldAgent platform, which replaces all variants of the AgVault and OnTop products. The new brand better reflects the...
Genetic Sequencing Company Illumina Hires New Genomics Expert
In California, Illumina, a DNA sequencing company, hired top clinical genomics expert, Gene Hampton, as their new executive vice president of clinical genomics. Hampton...
Drinking water technology keeps water microbe free for months
In Lithuania, researchers at Kaunas University of Technology are developing drinking water disinfection technology to destroy microorganisms and provide long-term (up to 3 months)...
Earth’s deep ocean microbes could grow on Saturn’s moon
In Austria, scientists at the Universität Wien found that some microbes from the Japanese deep sea could be able to reproduce under the possible...
Fish-killing algae blooms meet their match
In California, Agilent, a life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets company, is working with researchers at the Technical University of Denmark to analyze...