Turning plants into biological factories
Genetic manipulation has come a long way.
Biotechnology
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News tagged with manipulator
Researchers demonstrate light-induced locomotion in a nonliquid environment and report a new type of liquid-like motion
Motion is everywhere in living systems and is necessary for mechanical functions in artificial systems, such as robots and machines. Functional mechanical structures that can change volume and shape in response to external ...
General Physics
Nov 30, 2022
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Efflux pump inhibitors: Bulking up to beat bacteria
The medical profession is in the midst of losing an arms race. Bacterial antibiotic resistance doesn't just threaten our ability to treat infection but our ability to carry out any treatment where infection is a risk. This ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 31, 2022
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Team reports on a fungus that simultaneously combats two of the worst threats to banana plantation yields
The banana borer Cosmopolites sordidus and the disease Fusarium wilt, caused by the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum, are among the most harmful pests that threaten the livelihoods of banana growers, who face major challenges ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2022
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New practical method of producing Airy beams could enhance ultrasound
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis recently invented a technique for generating ultrasound waves that can self-bend, like the rainbow.
General Physics
Sep 7, 2022
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Researchers capture live footage of virus infecting cell
In a first, scientists have captured on video all the steps a virus follows as it enters and infects a living cell in real time and in three dimensions.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 6, 2022
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Detection of physical forces produced by bacterial infection can initiate the immune response
The immune system is under the constant challenge of specifically detecting dangerous microbes to remove them. Dr. Andrea Puhar and her team at The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2022
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Upside-down design expands wide-spectrum super-camera abilities
By turning a traditional lab-based fabrication process upside down, researchers at Duke University have greatly expanded the abilities of light-manipulating metasurfaces while also making them much more robust against the ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 6, 2022
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Explaining genetic modification research
What do bananas and cavoodles have in common? They're both lovely, yellowy and have been produced by genetic manipulation.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 30, 2022
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Understanding the genomic modifications in transgenic papaya
The transgenic papaya "SunUp" was developed in the 1990s and was widely publicized because of its ability to resist the papaya ringspot virus. Although researchers had identified the genomic sequence of SunUp by 2008, it ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 9, 2022
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