There are significant differences in species numbers among the major branches of the tree of life. Some groups of organisms have numerous species, while others have some. For example, animals, plants, and fungi each have more than 100,000 known species, how most of the others-- such as many algal and bacterial groups-- have 10,000...
MIT researchers have devised a way to program memories into bacterial cells by rewriting their DNA more efficiently. Credit: MIT News, iStockphoto Organic engineers at MIT have created a brand-new way to edit bacterial genomes successfully and program memories right into microbial cells by revising their DNA. Using this technique, various spatial and temporal information...
Illustration. Credit: Yuval Robichek, Weizmann Institute of Science According to the Weizmann Institute of Scientific scientists, proteins can connect through DNA, performing a long-distance dialogue that functions as a type of genetic "switch." They discovered that the binding of proteins to one point of a DNA molecule could affect an additional binding point at a...
Scanning was completed both during Time 1 and Time 2 (approximately 1.5 years later) in each of the 5 age groups (6-year-olds, 10-year-olds, 14-year-olds, 16-year-olds, and 18+-year-olds). Credit: Zacharopoulos G, et al., 2021, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0 The neurotransmitters GABA and glutamate have complementary functions - GABA inhibits neurons, while glutamate makes them extra active. Published...
On August 9, 2021, research from APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) at University College Cork (UCC), published in the leading international scientific journal Nature Aging, presents a new approach to invert aspects of brain deterioration and cognitive function related to aging through the microbes in the intestine. As our population ages, one of the leading global...
Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, wave power… Sustainable resources are an essential pillar of any strategy to decarbonize the planet's power generation sectors and eradicate fossil fuel usage. However, for several factors – intermittency, location dependence, land needs, and others – they can not accomplish it independently. A scalable form of zero-emissions energy that can reliably...
Credit: Photomontage / Shutterstock.com In the time of climate change, a panel of organic farmers discussed farming trials. It highlighted how the people and the planet have primary importance now that agriculture is most favorable. The severe growth of the impact of raising climate change on a liable system poses a substantial threat to the livelihoods...
Vega is the fifth brightest star, excluding the sun, that can be seen from Earth. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) A possible searing-hot planet was spotted by astronomers, orbiting Vega, one of the brightest and most known stars in the sky. Approximately the size of Neptune, the candidate alien planet lies very close to Vega, taking 2.5 Earth...
China has reached a new milestone in humanity's experiments to control the power of the stars. In May, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius and remained at that temperature for 101 seconds. The last time the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) withstood a plasma vortex for so long...
Biotechnology is the combination of engineering and innovation to the life sciences. Biotechnologists frequently utilize bacteria or biological compounds to carry out particular processes or for production. Examples consist of the production of drugs, hormones, foods and converting waste products. There are many sub-branches associated with the biotech industry. A few of the more typical branches...
