Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a more effective way of creating nanotherapeutic vaccines and medicines, according to a new study published in ACS Nano.
Bio & Medicine
Oct 31, 2023
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Imagine you're a fairywren living in a patch of scrub behind a schoolyard in the suburbs. It's been pretty nice so far, but a recent increase in neighborhood cats and the council's insect control tactics mean it's time to ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2024
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For Lucas Farnung, there is no question more fascinating than how a single fertilized egg develops into a fully-functioning human. As a structural biologist, he is studying this process on the smallest scale: the trillions ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 22, 2024
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Researchers at the Kiel Evolution Center have investigated for the first time in detail how a fungus important for biological plant protection can pass on an advantageous chromosome horizontally, using a previously little-studied ...
Evolution
Mar 8, 2024
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A recent study by University of Florida researchers provides insight into how beer yeast might behave when fermented in outer space. The research is published in the journal Beverages.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 15, 2024
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Sequencing the genome of single bacterial cells has long been technically difficult due to the seemingly unalterable bias in the gene amplification stage of the process, making it hard to produce high-coverage genome sequence ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 24, 2023
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A new study shows that sparrows with more opposite-sex friends contribute more to the gene pool, but 'average' friendliness wins out in the long term.
Evolution
Mar 9, 2023
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Bacteria that render colistin, a "last resort" antibiotic, ineffective are lurking in SoCal's wastewater. While bacteria resistant to colistin have been found elsewhere in the world, this marks the first detection in Los ...
Environment
Apr 6, 2023
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In a discovery aimed at accelerating the development of process-advantaged crops for jet biofuels, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a capability to insert multiple genes into ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2023
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One proven method for tracking down the genetic causes of diseases is to knock out a single gene in animals and study the consequences this has for the organism. The problem is that for many diseases, the pathology is determined ...
Biotechnology
Sep 20, 2023
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