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Turning Insect Microbes Against the Pests That Threaten Global Crops
4+ hour, 59+ min ago (75+ words) Every insect carries an invisible cargo of microorganisms. Bacteria, fungi, and other microbes live on the cuticle, in the gut, in the hemocoel, and even inside specialized cells called bacteriocytes, forming partnerships that can determine whether an insect thrives or…...
Type II Collagen Scaffold Switches On a Genetic Circuit That Keeps Cartilage Young
5+ hour, 23+ min ago (75+ words) Cartilage has a stubborn secret: once damaged, it almost never heals properly. Unlike bone or skin, the slick, load-bearing tissue that cushions our joints contains no blood vessels and almost no dividing cells, so a torn meniscus or worn knee…...
New Journal Section Puts Epigenetics on Trial: Ethics, Society and Science Collide
10+ hour, 1+ min ago (920+ words) Bioengineer.org...
Tiny Carbon Dots Coated in Amino Acids Help Medicinal Plant Fight Cadmium
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (688+ words) Cadmium is one of the most stubborn contaminants in agricultural soils, and for growers of Houttuynia cordata, a medicinal herb prized across Asia for its anti-inflammatory and antiviral compounds, it is a quiet catastrophe. The metal stunts growth, disrupts photosynthesis,…...
Magenta Solar Panels Boost Broccoli Growth While Harvesting Power
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (417+ words) Broccoli plants grown beneath semi-transparent, magenta-colored solar panels used sunlight far more efficiently than crops grown in full sun, according to a study published October 2 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science....
Engineering Life: How Synthetic Biology Is Rewriting Medicine, Farms and
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (74+ words) Synthetic biology has moved from a provocative idea to one of the fastest-moving disciplines in modern science, and a comprehensive new review published in Discover Biotechnology maps just how far the field has traveled. Authors Pelinsu Karataş and Furkan Ayaz…...
Tiny Janus Particles That Bounce Light Back Could Transform DNA Testing
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (698+ words) Imagine a diagnostic test so simple that it needs nothing more exotic than a microscope, a microfluidic chip, and a handful of microscopic particles that shine light straight back at whoever is looking at them....
AI Reads Crop Photosynthesis Pixel by Pixel in Deep Learning Leap for
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (502+ words) For decades, measuring how efficiently a crop photosynthesizes has meant clamping leaves into portable gas-exchange devices one at a time, a slow and painstaking process that limits how many plants a breeder can realistically evaluate....
Lipid-flipping protein emerges as hidden master switch in rice blast fungus
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (91+ words) The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most destructive plant pathogens on Earth, stripping away roughly six percent of the global rice harvest every year, with individual epidemics capable of destroying up to thirty percent of yields…...
Chemists Give Living Bacteria New Powers With a Universal Cell-Surface
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (708+ words) Bacteria already perform some of the most remarkable chemistry on Earth, from digesting pollutants to producing vitamins in the human gut....