GRAIL Genetic Blood Test Could Detect Cancer Before It Shows Up on X-Rays
In California, an Illumina spin-off DNA sequencing company called GRAIL, might have just found the Holy Grail of cancer prevention – a way to...
Likelihood of Getting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Could Be Linked To Genetics
In New York, scientists from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium PTSD Working Group found that genetics have more to do with getting post traumatic stress...
Tetris, Pong and other games powered by jellyfish protein
In the United Kingdom, Helene Steiner created a bio-pixel display to play games that use a protein that make jellyfish glow. Steiner’s company, Cell-Free...
Aniline Made from Biomaterials For First Time Ever – Turning Point for Key Foam...
In Germany, aniline, a chemical only attained from fossil fuels in the past, was produced from plant-based materials using a microorganism as a catalyst...
Agriculture now a leading contributor to air pollution in California
In California, a University of California, Davis study found that a previously unrecognized source of nitrogen oxide is contributing up to about 40% of...
Professor Uses Big Data to Understand How Body Reacts to Virus Attack
In Norway, a professor from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research is using big data to collect and...
Methane munching microbes in Antarctica
In Antarctica, microbes deep under Antarctica’s icy surface are fighting global warming in their own way, one munch at a time. The microbes are...
When Freezing Isn’t Freezing Enough – UNM Has New Nitrogen Tanks to Better Preserve...
In New Mexico, an expanded and better protected biological material repository has opened up at the University of New Mexico’s Division of Genomic Resources...
Something Healthy to Chew On – Researchers Assemble Lettuce Genome For First Time
In New York, researchers from Dovetail Genomics, BGI, and University of California, Davis have assembled a lettuce genome using an in vitro scaffolding improvement...
Space Station microbes similar to home microbes
In California, microbiologists at the University of California, Davis analyzed swabs taken by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and compared them with...