Students use synthetic biology to tackle cow burps
In Nebraska, students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have proposed two methods for dealing methane emissions related to livestock, a major contributor to global...
Bio-Rad Acquires RainDance Technologies to Strengthen DNA Sequencing Applications
In New York, Bio-Rad Laboratories acquired one of its rivals, RainDance Technologies. Details on the acquisition amount or impact for RainDance employees were not...
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...
File too large? Genome data compression a hit with gene-sequencing companies
In India, Geneformics is looking at the growing trend and popularity of genome data in medical, biotech and other fields and wondering how all...
Army Scientists Discover Way to Produce Hydrogen Fuel with Aluminum Nanomaterial
In Maryland, U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists noticed a bubbling reaction when they added water to a nano-galvanic aluminum-based powder during regular lab experimentation,...
Magic disappearing act comes to 3D printing using stereolithography and ionic salts
In Rhode Island, Brown University engineers demonstrated a technique for making 3D printed biomaterials that can degrade on demand, which can be useful in...
ASM contest turns science into art
In New Orleans, the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art contest is giving scientists the opportunity to also become artists.
Using agar plates—petri dishes that...
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...
PrecisionHawk Integrates Drone Data Platform with John Deer’s Operations Center
In North Carolina, PrecisonHawk is integrating DataMapper, its drone data platform, with John Deere’s Operations Center, which will allow farmers to see all of...
Microbe DNA sequenced in space for the first time ever
In Outer Space, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson became the first person ever to collect unknown organisms from the International Space Station and sequence their...