University of California, Berkeley, synthetic biologists have engineered brewer's yeast to produce marijuana's main ingredients—mind-altering THC and non-psychoactive CBD—as well as novel cannabinoids not found in the ...
Biotechnology
Feb 27, 2019
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MIT biologists have discovered the answer to a fundamental biological question: Why are cells of a given type all the same size?
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 7, 2019
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Lager beer is cold, crisp, dry—and worth about half a trillion dollars worldwide.
Plants & Animals
Jan 30, 2019
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A research team from Whitehead Institute has uncovered a surprising and previously unrecognized role for introns, the parts of genes that lack the instructions for making proteins and are typically cut away and rapidly destroyed. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 17, 2019
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Genetically engineered microbes such as bacteria and yeasts have long been used as living factories to produce drugs and fine chemicals. More recently, researchers have started to combine bacteria with semiconductor technology ...
Biotechnology
Nov 15, 2018
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On their way to decoding the genome of every organism in a major branch of the tree of life—that of the humble budding yeasts—a team of evolutionary biologists successfully reconstructed the genomic and metabolic characteristics ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 8, 2018
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A team of researchers with members from several institutions in France has created a detailed map of the genetic evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their ...
Hoppy beer is all the rage among craft brewers and beer lovers, and now UC Berkeley biologists have come up with a way to create these unique flavors and aromas without using hops.
Biotechnology
Mar 20, 2018
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387
Detouring around a major research roadblock, researchers have found a new way to create valuable antibodies without needing ... llamas?
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 12, 2018
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Genetic mutation may drive evolution, but not all by itself. Physics can be a powerful co-pilot, sometimes even setting the course.
General Physics
Nov 27, 2017
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