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...
TerrAvio and Servi-Tech Partnership to Offer Clients Improved Aerial Imagery Services
In California, TerrAvio and Servi-Tech, Inc. have partnered to offer more aerial imagery options to growers. TerrAvion takes hundreds of flights a week to...
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...
Forget Hand Weeding and Chemicals – Automated Weeding Machinery Realistic Option For Many Growers
In Kansas, Weed Technology, a journal of the nonprofit Weed Science Society of America, said that automated and robotic weeding technology is getting better...
Bigger better beefsteak tomatoes thanks to genomics
In Georgia, geneticists found that the gene variant called Cell Size Regulator is responsible for the size of various cultivated and wild tomatoes. They...
Better Way to Break Down Biomass for Biofuels? Fungi Holds Promise
In California, chemical engineering researchers have discovered that unusual fungi called Anaeromyces robustus can transform lignocellulose from plants into sugars, which could be quite...
Design Your Own Baby Coming Soon? Could Be Within Five Years
In New York, Jef Boeke, Director of the Institute for Systems Genetics at New York University, told The Daily Mail that artificial human DNA...
Tough tooth to crack but researchers find a way to collect stem cells from...
In Nevada, researchers at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas developed a new method of extracting large numbers of stem cells from something...
Bio-Rad Acquires RainDance Technologies to Strengthen DNA Sequencing Applications
In New York, Bio-Rad Laboratories acquired one of its rivals, RainDance Technologies. Details on the acquisition amount or impact for RainDance employees were not...
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...