Biotechnology
Feb 16, 2023
AI can track bees on camera: Here's how that will help farmers
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a new way to track the insect pollinators essential to farming.
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Biotechnology
Feb 15, 2023
Novel method to accurately measure key marker of biological aging
Telomeres—the caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect our genetic materials from the brunt of cellular wear and tear—are known to shorten and fray over time. Lifestyle, diet and stress can exacerbate this process, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2023
Race to vaccinate rare wild monkeys gives hope for survival
In a small lab nestled in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, researchers with gloved hands and masked faces cradle four tiny golden monkeys so a veterinarian can delicately slide a needle under the thin skin of each sedated animal's ...
Biotechnology
Jan 24, 2023
Boosting efficiency of genome editing procedures to modify initially inaccessible DNA sequences
In the course of optimizing key procedures of genome editing, researchers from the department of Developmental Biology / Â鶹ÒùÔºiology at the Center for Organismal Studies of Heidelberg University have succeeded in substantially ...
Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics
Jan 12, 2023
Quantum computers threaten our whole cybersecurity infrastructure: Here's how scientists can bulletproof it
Thirteen, 53 and 433. That's the size of quantum computers in terms of quantum bits, or qubits, which has significantly grown in the last years due to important public and private investments and initiatives. Obviously, it ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2023
A robotic microsurgeon reveals how embryos grow
Combining biology and robotics, scientists at EPFL have built a robotic microsurgery platform that can perform high-precision, micrometer-resolution dissections to advance our understanding of how the vertebrate body forms ...
Veterinary medicine
Dec 23, 2022
Can dogs sniff out bovine respiratory disease?
A Texas A&M AgriLife researcher is taking a page out of human disease research to see if dogs might be able to sniff out bovine respiratory disease, BRD, one of the largest health challenges for the feedlot cattle industry.
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2022
A fish's life: How the short-lived killifish could reveal principles of human aging
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute trainees Jingxun Chen and Emma Costa found an unusual way to pass the time during lockdown.
Other
Dec 19, 2022
Emily Brontë's death needs to be radically reimagined—an expert explains
Novelist Charlotte Brontë was devastated when her sister Emily died from tuberculosis on December 19, 1848.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2022
Building the cytoskeleton: Researchers establish mode of action of crucial signaling complexes
Bacterial pathogens like Salmonella, Shigella, Listeria and many others exploit the protein skeleton of the cells they infect in order to spread throughout the host. However, how is this so-called cytoskeleton of host cells ...
