Szostak believes the earliest cells developed on land in ponds or pools, potentially in volcanically active regions. Ultraviolet light, lightning strikes, and volcanic eruptions all…
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An Aedes mosquito with pollen sacs on its eyes feeding from Platanthera flowers. Credit: Kiley Riffell Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn’t get…
Used for fast food frying, added to packaged foods, and fed to livestock, soybean oil is by far the most widely produced and consumed edible…
Rutgers-led team develops innovative process to rapidly dissolve plant fibers to make it easier to turn plant waste into biofuels. Researchers have developed a new…
Bacteria producing chemicals with (left) and without (right) the bioderivitization step. With bioderivitization, the bacteria are healthier (darker green). Credit: Patrik Jones/Imperial College London Researchers…
Protein structure solved by study. Credit: University of Sheffield Scientists reveal ‘beating heart’ of photosynthesis that is responsible for significantly influencing plant growth. Study shows…
New study shows exactly how the manner in which mitochondria divide has remained the same since evolution began. Cellular origin is well explained by the…
P. Todd Stukenberg, PhD, of UVA’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and the UVA Cancer Center, works in his lab. Credit: Dan Addison |…
Three dimensional density map and atomic model of the native supercoiled flagellar hook revealed by cryoEM image analysis. Left: side view; right: a central section.…
Sustainable Adhesive. Credit: Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography Sustainable Adhesives of the Future Won’t Stick Around Plastics of the future should, ideally for the…
An empty petri dish with two optical fibers, illustrating one version of the researchers’ experiment. The left-hand fiber (usually shining infrared light, but depicted here…
Anthracnose Alert: How Bacteria Prime Fifth-Biggest Global Grain Crop Against Deadly Fungus Anthracnose of Sorghum bicolor devastates crops of the drought- and heat-resistant cereal worldwide.…
Insights from their study may provide a novel therapeutic approach for diseases such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s. Associate Professor Roger Pocock, from the Monash Biomedicine…
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have created a suite of new biological sensors by chemically re-engineering pigments to act like tiny Venus flytraps. The sensors…
One of the bioreactors that Kartal and his colleagues used to grow cells of K. stuttgartiensis in the lab. Anammox bacteria are packed with heme-containing…
Princeton University researchers have found that nature has developed a backup method for converting atmospheric nitrogen into the nutrient form critical to plant growth and…
A visualization of the FACT protein. Credit: Liu et al. 2019 Scientists Now Know What DNA’s Chaperone Looks Like Researchers have discovered the structure of…
We love coffee, tea, chocolate, and soft drinks so much, caffeine is literally in our blood. Scientists at Oregon State University may have proven how…
Researchers have developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Development is significant step toward skin grafts…
Researchers of the Faculty of Science of the University of Malaga (UMA) have designed a low-cost T-shirt that generates electricity from the temperature difference between…