Good news for semi-conductor and biomaterial industries – Chemists develop metal-free method to control...
In Japan, chemists at the Nagoya Institute of Technology report a metal-free method to control cationic polymerization that provides a new framework for higher...
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...
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...
NRGene delilvers first-ever potato genomes
In Israel, NRGene is collaborating with researchers from Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and others to create multi-genome mapping of commercial food...
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...
Researchers find a way to control cell movements in contact with biomaterials
In Sweden, a research team at Malmö University’s Research Center for Biofilms and Biointerfaces developed a way to control cell movements in contact with...
Canada using DNA technologies to speed up agricultural imports and exports
In Canada, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is using DNA-based technologies to help speed up the...
No ifs, ands or butts – worms with no anus haven’t evolved for millions...
In Japan, deep sea worms with no central nervous system, no kidneys and no butts, are somehow still living today deep in the seafloor...
Identification based on genome data could further complicate ethical and legal concerns
In New York, researchers found that genome sequence data can be enough to identify people, even with no other information given, leading to ethical...
Not sure what that plant is? Portable genome sequencer tells you quickly from the...
In the United Kingdom, researchers conducted genome sequencing for the first time ever in actual fields. Researchers used the MinION from Oxford Nanopore Technologies...