We live in an era when biotechnology, information technology, manufacturing and automation all come together to form a capability called synthetic biology.
Biotechnology
Sep 5, 2018
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Smart land-use planning could ease the conflict between agricultural production and nature conservation. A team of researchers from the University of Göttingen, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), ...
Environment
Mar 8, 2018
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China will need more than three times as much milk by 2050 as it produced in 2010 and, without changes to its current supply lines, the demand will lift global greenhouse gas emissions from dairy herds by 35%, expand dairy ...
Environment
Feb 6, 2018
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Combining the innovations of synthetic biology with robotic environmental sampling, a team of University of Bristol researchers are travelling to some of the most 'extreme' environments on Earth, including Atlantic depths ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2017
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A new study published in Global Change Biology challenges the idea that the trend towards larger, more intensive dairy farms mitigates climate change by shrinking the carbon footprint of milk production. A team of animal ...
Environment
Oct 3, 2017
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Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) is an unforgiving killer of horses, donkeys and zebras, resulting in mortality as high as 80 percent of infected animals. It causes rapid, catastrophic swelling of the brain and ...
Ecology
Nov 28, 2016
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"Hydraulic fracturing" (or fracking) and "environmentally friendly" often do not appear in the same sentence together. But as the United States teeters on the precipice of a shale gas boom, Northwestern University professor ...
Environment
Jun 25, 2015
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New method allows production of expensive grapefruit aroma Nootkatone biotechnologically from cheap sugar using a 'turbo-yeast.' The versatile, healthy and tasty substance is used in soft drinks, pharmaceutical products or ...
Biotechnology
Apr 15, 2015
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Straw-powered cars could be a thing of the future thanks to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Biotechnology
Mar 26, 2015
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The spread of exotic and aggressive strains of a plant fungus is presenting a serious threat to wheat production in the UK, according to research published in Genome Biology. The research uses a new surveillance technique ...
Biotechnology
Feb 26, 2015
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