The transition toward sustainable biobased chemical production is important for green growth, but productivity and yield of engineered cells frequently decrease in large industry-scale fermentation. This barrier to commercialization ...
Biotechnology
Feb 22, 2018
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Scheme Lab, a biotech startup incubated at the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology (CIETEC), in São Paulo, Brazil, is developing genetic tests that can be used anywhere—in factories, on farms, or even ...
Biotechnology
Sep 18, 2017
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A recent study from UBC's Okanagan campus identifies new genetic markers in sockeye salmon that can help improve management of fish populations.
Ecology
May 25, 2017
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Oyster farmers are set to benefit from a new genetic tool that will help to prevent disease outbreaks and improve yields.
Ecology
May 23, 2017
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Scientists and mungbean growers around the world now have access to an open-source website containing the latest genetic information on the qualities of 560 accessions of mungbean.
Biotechnology
Apr 20, 2017
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Over many thousands of years, farmers have bred maize varieties so the crops are optimally adapted to local environments.
Biotechnology
Feb 15, 2017
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have released the largest-ever single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) dataset of genetic variations in poplar trees, information useful to plant ...
Biotechnology
Jan 17, 2017
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Within the salty lakes of the Bahama's San Salvador Island is an amazing diversity of fishes that may rival Charles Darwin's finches in the Galapagos.
Evolution
Dec 27, 2016
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I've often wondered what happens between the time an egg is fertilized and the time the ball of cells that it becomes nestles into the uterine lining. It's a period that we know very little about, a black box of developmental ...
Medical research
May 27, 2016
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A Cornell-led international team of researchers has launched a set of open-access genomic resources that will greatly accelerate the ability of geneticists and breeders to link genes to important traits in rice.
Biotechnology
Feb 5, 2016
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