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Disinfecting water with peptide-coated silver sulfide quantum dots

Water contaminated with bacteria poses a serious threat to global health. In the scientific publication Angewandte Chemie, a Chinese research team developed a simple new technique for disinfection.

1 Mar 2023

Scientists accelerate the development of pure genetic lines by inducing mutation

Iowa State University researchers may have solved a long-standing challenge associated with accelerated development of pure genetic lines.

20 Feb 2023

Understanding the step-by-step development of E. coli resistance to drugs

Antibiotic resistance, which occurs when infection-causing bacteria evolve to the point where they are no longer affected by conventional antibiotics, is a worldwide concern.

15 Dec 2022

Understanding immune cell function to improve vaccine efficacy

The immune system’s capacity to remember defeated disease-causing germs and avoid recurrent infections is still poorly understood, but a new study published in Science Immunology fills in some gaps.

From Rutgers University 8 Nov 2022

Gene editing technique makes new kinds of research possible in animal models

Working in teeny tiny worms, scientists can now test the effects of thousands of genetic mutations in one fell swoop.

3 Nov 2022

Research shows readily available pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in the United States

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Sept. 12 to launch a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, noting the United States relies too heavily on foreign materials and foreign bioproduction.

5 Oct 2022

Generalizable strategy to program gene stability of microbial communities

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have revealed a microbial community phenomenon that is analogous to teaching neighbors how to perform critical jobs by ripping out and sharing parts of the brain.

8 Sep 2022

Study explores phytoplasmas in insects from natural areas

Phytoplasmas are bacteria that can invade the vascular tissues of plants, causing many different crop diseases.

3 Aug 2022

Study explores labor time-use on Irish pasture-based dairy farms

Globally, dairy producers face increasing challenges regarding sustainability, including declining numbers of workers in the agricultural sector, while continuing to meet increasing demand for nutritious and affordable food.

27 Jul 2022

Study highlights the history of ancient DNA technology development

Ancient DNA (aDNA) technology has been used for the past ten years by researchers working under the direction of FU Qiaomei at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to learn more about the history of ancient human populations, particularly those in East Asia.

26 Jul 2022

Researchers review the major milestones of ancient DNA techniques

Ancient DNA (aDNA) technology has been used for the past ten years by researchers working under the direction of Qiaomei Fu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to learn more about the past of ancient human populations, particularly those in East Asia.

25 Jul 2022

How Important is the European Ecosystem to Life Sciences Research?

As part of our SLAS Europe 2022 coverage, we speak to Jan Lichtenberg, vice president of SLAS, about the role Europe plays within life sciences research.

From Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 7 Jul 2022

Monitoring Coral Reef Restoration with Artificial Intelligence

AZoLifeSciences talks to Ben Williams about his research recording the acoustics of coral reefs and using machine learning to monitor coral reef restoration.

From University College London 28 Jun 2022

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics supports new Keep Kids Fed Act to protect nutrition security for children

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics strongly supports the new Keep Kids Fed Act, introduced June 21 in Congress, as a crucial step in addressing nutrition security among school-aged children in the United States.

23 Jun 2022

Cost of groceries rose in tandem with COVID-19 cases, global study finds

By now, most Americans have felt the effects of global crises on their grocery bills. Recent research published in the journal Nature Food has found this to be a worldwide phenomenon.

14 Jun 2022

Researchers develop advanced machine learning to count blood cells

The use of machine learning to do blood cell counts for illness detection rather than costly and often less reliable cell analyzer devices has proven labor-intensive, as the training of the machine learning model requires a tremendous amount of manual annotation activity by humans.

27 May 2022