Better Lambs Being Produced in New Zealand Thanks to Wharetoa Genetics
In New Zealand, Wharetoa Genetics has long thought it had better ewes and rams that offered higher profits for lamb farmers than competitors. But...
Microbe is a pain in the gut, triggers IBD
In Nebraska, a colon-dwelling bacterium may trigger inflammatory bowel diseases by raising the immune system’s alarm against its peaceful bacterial community, reports a recent...
AeroFarms Builds New 70,000 Foot Vertical Farm to Expand Salad Business
In New Jersey, AeroFarms built a 36 foot tall indoor farm on a former steel supply company site and now grow baby salad greens...
Looking for Extra Cash? Genos Looking to Buy Your DNA Data DNA
In California, you could get paid for participating in Genos’ human exome data gathering project. Human genome sequencing costs have gone down in recent...
Magic mushrooms gene cluster save themselves
In Ohio, researchers found that psilocybin, the chemical that gives mushrooms hallucinogenic effects, actually serves a purpose for the mushrooms themselves. They analyzed three...
Is Holiday Stress Causing You to Drink Too Much or Get Divorced? Study Says...
In Virginia, researchers studied people in Sweden who were alcoholics and divorced to see if they could find a correlation. They were trying to...
PETA will be happy to hear – No more animal testing thanks to organ...
In Massachusetts, scientists are putting working tiny models of organs, like livers and lungs, on tiny chips for human biology research. Looking more like...
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...
Biomaterial Virginia Tech professor arrested for defrauding NSF grants
In Ohio, Yiheng Percival Zhang, a professor at Virginia Tech’s school’s department of biological systems engineering, is in a Roanoke jail waiting to appear...
Researchers make U.S. history with first human gene editing
In Oregon, researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University have made history by being the first ones to create genetically modified human embryos...