Stem cells help pets recover from arthritis and dysplasia
In Florida, specialty hospital Affiliated Veterinary Specialists has conducted eight successful adult stem cell procedures on horses and dogs to help them with dysplasia,...
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...
Genomics Testing Speeds Up Foodborne Bacteria Research
In Georgia, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are using new genomics testing to...
KeyGene’s crop and animal breeding patent upheld by the USPTO
In the Netherlands, KeyGene’s United States patent (US 8,815,512) protecting Sequence-Based Genotyping (SBG) technology was upheld by the United States Patent and Trademark Office,...
Nutrients in soil directly related to microbial activity
In California, microbial metabolism, nutrient availability, and soil carbon cycling rates were found to be intricately linked together in a study of wetlands and...
Newly discovered microbe is a methane-producing menace
In Ohio, a study of Lake Erie by researchers at Ohio State University suggest underestimation of methane-producing microbes and the amount of methane being...
Worries and wondering abound for Galveston National Laboratory in Texas
In Texas, Hurricane Harvey and the resulting flooding in the Galveston area is causing people to wonder about the safety of the Galveston National...
Nanotechnology Used in Fertilizer as Better Environmental Alternative and More Efficient
In Sri Lanka, researchers are using nanotechnology to create more efficient fertilizer. They coated hydroxyapatite nanoparticles, a mineral considered to be environmentally friendly, with...
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...
Pee Powered Electricity Solves Several Problems
In France, environmental firm Fournisser Energie is turning pee into electricity using living microbes that eat up urine. While the urine-eating microbes won’t be...