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New non-thermal pasteurization system minimizes microbes without destroying nutrition

In Connecticut, Aurora Products is partnering with Agri-Neo, a food safety technology company that has developed a new non-thermal pasteurization system using an organic...

Genetics and breeding help gassy cows be more eco-friendly

In Scotland, SRUC scientists completed a study that finds ways to breed cows that are less gassy and thus produce less of the terrible...

520 day isolation shows microbes could endanger Mars space crew on long journey

In Russia, six Marsonauts crew members lived in a mock space capsule for the 520 days it would take to travel to Mars and...

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In Nevada, researchers at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas developed a new method of extracting large numbers of stem cells from something...

White Guinea yam genome sequencing could help millions in Africa with staple food crop

In Japan, researchers led by the Iwate Biotechnology Institute Research Center performed genome analysis of white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata) to accelerate marker-assisted breeding...

Save the Redwoods League Launches Genome Project

In California, University of California, Davis, John Hopkins University and Save the Redwoods League are launching an ambitious plan to fully sequence the coast...

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...

Algae microbes cause ‘blood snow’ to melt faster creating havoc on glaciers

In Alaska, scientists from Alaska Pacific University’s Department of Environmental Science, found that an algae species growing on glaciers that turns the snow a...

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