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Red seaweed supplement can reduce methane emissions without compromising meat quality

Livestock farming is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide because ruminants like sheep and cattle produce methane as a byproduct of digestion.

18 Mar 2021

Researchers identify address codes in odorant receptor proteins for the first time

A team of scientists led by Dietmar Krautwurst from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has now identified address codes in odorant receptor proteins for the first time.

18 Mar 2021

Strict ocean protection may help solve food, climate and biodiversity crises

A new study published in the prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature today offers a combined solution to several of humanity's most pressing challenges.

18 Mar 2021

Study reveals that lettuce can be grown in solar cell greenhouses

A recent study shows that lettuce can be grown in greenhouses that filter out wavelengths of light used to generate solar power, demonstrating the feasibility of using see-through solar panels in greenhouses to generate electricity.

18 Mar 2021

Artificial light affects insects' pollination behavior during the daytime

The use of artificial light at night around the world has increased enormously in recent years, causing adverse effects on the survival and reproduction of nocturnal organisms.

18 Mar 2021

Researchers develop new cell-based test system to identify immunoregulatory modulators

Our immune system is very successful when it comes to warding off viruses and bacteria. It also recognizes cancer cells as potential enemies and fights them. However, cancer cells have developed strategies to evade surveillance by the immune system and to prevent immune response.

18 Mar 2021

Scientists provide a complete phenotypic landscape of SCN2A-related disorders

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) affiliated with the CHOP Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGIN) have compiled a complete genetic and clinical analysis of more than 400 individuals with SCN2A-related disorder, which has been linked to a variety of neurodevelopmental disorders, including epilepsy and autism.

18 Mar 2021

$1 million NSF grant effort to explore a natural process that saps plants' productivity

Plants were evolving for hundreds of millions of years before humans started cultivating them for food. So when the first farmers showed up some 12,000 years ago, plants had already picked up some inefficiencies -- that is, adaptations that helped the plants survive but also limited their productivity as crops.

17 Mar 2021

Decades of crop breeding prevents modern corn from recruiting nitrogen-fixing microbes

Corn didn't start out as the powerhouse crop it is today. No, for most of the thousands of years it was undergoing domestication and improvement, corn grew humbly within the limits of what the environment and smallholder farmers could provide.

17 Mar 2021

Genetic flaw shows promise for treating eye disease

A genetic flaw may hold the key to delay or prevent the onset of a serious eye disorder that can result in blindness and vision loss.

From Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) 17 Mar 2021

Study shows how human viruses are better adapted to infect certain tissues

The world’s first systematic study has explained how SARS-CoV-2 and other human viruses are more adapted to infect specific types of tissues..

17 Mar 2021

Study identifies novel mechanism by which hair follicles lose regenerative capabilities

Hair grows from stem cells residing in hair follicles. During aging, the capability of hair follicles to grow hair is successively lost, leading to hair thinning and ultimately hair loss.

17 Mar 2021

Collective behavior of bacterial swarms may lead to the emergence of antibiotic resistance

A new study shows that the bacterial equivalent of a traffic jam leads to the formation of multilayered biofilms in the presence of antibiotics.

17 Mar 2021

New machine learning method detects the pH of a cell to identify whether it is cancerous

Cancerous cells differ from healthy cells in various significant ways. This helps identify them as harmful.

17 Mar 2021

Study reveals substantial difference in selection and timing of genetic tests for non-small-cell lung cancer

During biomarker testing, certain disease-associated molecules are examined to estimate the progression of a disease and its response to treatments.

17 Mar 2021

Four strains of Methylobacteriaceae discovered

The latest discovery aboard the International Space Station could now enable scientists to develop the “fuel” to help plants endure such stressful conditions.

From NASA 17 Mar 2021

Key protein regulates cells’ innate defense mechanisms

Scientists from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) have found that heparanase (HPSE) is an important regulator of innate defense mechanisms of cells.

17 Mar 2021

Study reveals molecular profiles of Parkinson's disease

The second most common neurodegenerative disorder is Parkinson’s disease, but despite this, not much is known about the causes of this condition.

17 Mar 2021

Upgrade Your Sample Management Workflow

Ziath has introduced an easy upgrade path for the many users of DataPaq 3 sample management software products to its powerful new DP5 suite of products.

16 Mar 2021

High-resolution map of yeast genome can shed light on development responses in higher organisms

A new study explains an effort to create the most detailed and high-resolution map of gene regulation and chromosome architecture in yeast organisms.

15 Mar 2021

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Red seaweed supplement can reduce methane emissions without compromising meat quality

Researchers identify address codes in odorant receptor proteins for the first time

Strict ocean protection may help solve food, climate and biodiversity crises

Study reveals that lettuce can be grown in solar cell greenhouses

Artificial light affects insects' pollination behavior during the daytime

Researchers develop new cell-based test system to identify immunoregulatory modulators

Scientists provide a complete phenotypic landscape of SCN2A-related disorders

$1 million NSF grant effort to explore a natural process that saps plants' productivity

Decades of crop breeding prevents modern corn from recruiting nitrogen-fixing microbes

Genetic flaw shows promise for treating eye disease

Study shows how human viruses are better adapted to infect certain tissues

Study identifies novel mechanism by which hair follicles lose regenerative capabilities

Collective behavior of bacterial swarms may lead to the emergence of antibiotic resistance

New machine learning method detects the pH of a cell to identify whether it is cancerous

Study reveals substantial difference in selection and timing of genetic tests for non-small-cell lung cancer

Four strains of Methylobacteriaceae discovered

Key protein regulates cells’ innate defense mechanisms

Study reveals molecular profiles of Parkinson's disease

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