Finding Nemo's genes—reef fish genome mapped and shared
Nemo's genome has been deciphered and made publicly available, helping researchers further investigate fish ecology and evolution.
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CRISPR-edited rice plants produce major boost in grain yield
A team of scientists from Purdue University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to develop a variety of rice that produces 25-31 percent more grain and would have been virtually ...
Faster genome evolution methods to transform yeast
Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same yeast we use for bread and beer production.
A new DNA editing toolkit for the alga Nannochloropsis
Eric Poliner and a team of MSU scientists in the Farre and Benning labs have released a new genetic engineering toolkit for the alga Nannochloropsis. The alga is of interest for the production of biofuels and other oil-based ...
These CRISPR-modified crops don't count as GMOs
To feed the burgeoning human population, it is vital that the world figures out ways to boost food production.
How wheat can root out the take-all fungus
In the soils of the world's cereal fields, a family tussle between related species of fungi is underway for control of the crops' roots, with food security threatened if the wrong side wins. Beneficial fungi can help plants ...
Novel bioactive steroid biosynthetic pathway in symbiotic fungi
A group of researchers from Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at The University of Tokyo and Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products at Jinan University, identified the biosynthetic gene cluster ...
Biophysicist works toward bio-inspired solar cell
Even the best human-engineered solar cell is essentially a clunky dial-up modem compared to the sleek high-speed efficiency of the humble leaf. After all, plants have had about a billion years to perfect the process of photosynthesis, ...
Profiling the genome hundreds of variations at a time
Geneticists have been using model organisms ranging from the house mouse to the single-cell bakers' yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to study basic biological processes that regulate human development and physiology, and ...
Study finds snap-lock mechanism in bacterial riboswitch
In a discovery that points to potential new antibiotic medicines, scientists from Rice University and the University of Michigan have deciphered the workings of a common but little-understood bacterial switch that cuts off ...
