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In a new approach for tapping biomass as a sustainable raw material, scientists are reporting use of a Nobel-Prize-winning technology to transform plant "essential oils" into high-value ingredients for sunscreens, perfumes and other personal care products.
Dec 12th, 2012
Read moreA University of British Columbia researcher has helped create a gel - based on the mussel's knack for clinging to rocks, piers and boat hulls - that can be painted onto the walls of blood vessels and stay put, forming a protective barrier with potentially life-saving implications.
Dec 11th, 2012
Read moreFor the first time, researchers sequenced DNA molecules without the need for the standard pre-sequencing workflow known as library preparation.
Dec 11th, 2012
Read morePhysicists and biologists apply Big Data statistical tools to study marine plant evolution.
Dec 10th, 2012
Read moreIn Shoreditch, residence to London artists, coffee shops and retro clothes, a group of amateur scientists and UCL students have met to engineer biology. They're building a bacteria incubator out of a fridge box, cardboard and open source electronics. Their mission? To test the potential and limitation of biohacking - citizen science in synthetic biology.
Dec 8th, 2012
Read moreA newly discovered bacterium degrades an antibiotic both to protect itself and get nutrition.
Dec 7th, 2012
Read moreResearchers in the United Kingdom have discovered that copper has the ability to prevent the horizontal transmission of genes, which has fuelled the spread of global antibiotic-resistant infections.
Dec 6th, 2012
Read morePress coverage of synthetic biology in the United States and Europe increased significantly between 2008 and 2011, according to a report released today by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Dec 5th, 2012
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An international team of scientists, using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, has revealed the three dimensional structure of a key enzyme that enables the single-celled parasite that causes African trypanosomiasis (or sleeping sickness) in humans.
Dec 5th, 2012
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Johns Hopkins researchers have used a small synthetic molecule to stimulate cells to move and change shape, bypassing the cells' usual way of sensing and responding to their environment. The experiment pioneers a new tool for studying cell movement, a phenomenon involved in everything from development to immunity to the spread of cancer.
Dec 5th, 2012
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Researchers in Japan have created a hybrid scaffold which promotes tissue regeneration, strong and biodegradable.
Dec 5th, 2012
Read moreScientists have discovered 100 million-year-old regions in the DNA of several plant species which could hold secrets about how specific genes are turned 'on' or 'off'.
Dec 5th, 2012
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With a new research center, Stanford scientists from across campus will join a new "information age of genomics." The goal is nothing short of improving human well-being.
Dec 4th, 2012
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New finding might help improve "liquid biopsy" approach for detecting cancer cells in blood.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreScientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have published an important proof-of-principle study showing that a computational model can elucidate the interplay of transcription regulators and epigenome dynamics during differentiation. This is critical for a better understanding of the nature of different cell types and disease stages.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreNew research from two teams led by Carnegie's Zhiyong Wang and Kathryn Barton focuses on the role of the crucial plant hormone brassinosteroid in the creation of plant-shoot architecture.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreSustainable technique does not add chemicals, hormones or create genetically modified organisms.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreUsing computational techniques, researchers have shown how a protein responsible for the maturation of the virus releases itself to initiate infection.
Dec 4th, 2012
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