Hope for Children with Brain Tumors
In Illinois, researchers discovered how the most deadly pediatric brain tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, develops and found a compound that can flip the...
New way to repurpose DNA to create new materials discovered
In California, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute showed that they could make several potentially valuable chemical modifications to DNA nucleotides and produce useful...
Ginkgo Bioworks Getting 3.2kB Genes from Twist Bioscience
In California, Twist Bioscience is sending some serious genes to Ginkgo Bioworks. Twist’s genes have up to 3,200 base pairs (or 3.2 kB) in...
Gold rush! Bacteria poops out gold nuggets
In Germany, researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg found that the bacterium called Cupriavidus metallidurans eats up toxic metallic compounds, continues to live...
The sky is falling! 800 million viruses fall from the sky every day
In British Columbia, a study from the University of British Columbia found that more than 800 million viruses are deposited per square meter every...
54 New Soybean Varieties to be Available in 2017 from DuPont Pioneer
In Iowa, DuPont Pioneer will be offering 54 new soybean varieties next year for farmers in the U.S. to choose from in their A-Series...
Mosquito genetics inspire innovative idea for biomaterial storage solution
In Russia, mosquitos are proving to be quite helpful in coming up with a biomaterial storage solution to replace the current deep freezing or...
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...
Genomics Study on Sharks Reveal Why They Heal Faster and Have Less Cancer than...
In Florida and New York, several universities concluded a genomics study of shark DNA and found that their unique genes are responsible for the...
Printing Medicine In Remote Clinics or Printing Needed Supplies in Space Could Be the...
In California, Synthetic Genomics developed a printing machine called Digital-to-Biological Converter that takes digital representations of DNA and prints them using chemicals that make...