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...
Get dirty to fight skin cancer – Dirt microbe kills melanoma cells
In Oregon, researchers at Oregon State University found that a type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, The molecule...
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...
Microbes get memory and…ahem…gas in latest engineering project
In Texas, researchers at Rice University successfully engineered microbes to have genetic memories of their environment and events and to give off response signals...
Less is more but not in a good way – less microbes lead to...
In the United Kingdom, University of Manchester researchers found that the less microbes you have in your body, the more resistant to antibiotics they...
We aren’t even half human – microbes make up more than 50%
In the United Kingdom, scientists say more than half of our body is not human, with human cells making up a mere 43% of...
Synthetic Genomics and ExxonMobil Extend Algae Biofuels Agreement
In California, Synthetic Genomics and ExxonMobil renewed their joint research agreement from 2009 so they could keep working on their advanced algae biofuels project....
Let your light shine – bacteria sensor lights up when exposed to toxins
In Denmark, Technical University of Denmark researchers collaborating with Israeli colleagues have built a sensor equipped with bacteria which light up when exposed to...
Human microbes likely contaminated ISS, not aliens
In Russia, Anton Shkaplerov, who will lead Russia’s International Space Station crew in December, said that samples from a recent swabbing of the outside...
100,000 Genomes Project singing “Woah, we’re half way there”
In the United Kingdom, the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Genomics England today announced reaching the 50,000 whole human genome...