Bioengineer
Corporate control, ecological challenges and food safety: Challenges await expansion of the gene-editing crop revolution
Ethical considerations surrounding genome editing are as complex as the science itself. As the debate rages on about the safety ...
Agriculture faces a challenging future as it enters the age of gene editing and sustainable farming
In the ever-evolving world of agricultural science, researchers are relentlessly searching for innovative methods to enhance crop resilience against the ...
A remarkable discovery may open the door to gene editing, tripling yields of wheat and other grain crops
A groundbreaking discovery from the University of Maryland promises to revolutionize wheat cultivation and dramatically boost global food security. Researchers ...
7 technologically futuristic foods are already rolling out
As the global population accelerates towards nearly 10 billion by mid-century, the imperative to transform food production systems has never ...
Microplastics are bad for your brain
Tiny plastic particles pervade nearly every corner of our planet, from remote ocean trenches to pristine polar ice fields. These ...
Why are walnuts considered a new ‘brain food’?
A new clinical trial of undergraduate students during their university studies has shown positive effects of walnut consumption on self-reported ...
Tiny heart made from bioengineered parts and human tissue created to study disease
There’s no safe way to get a close-up view of the human heart as it goes about its work: you ...
How might geoengineering the climate impact infectious disease control?
Geoengineering the climate would have massive repercussions for the health of billions of people at risk of malaria who live ...
Is wisdom linked to gender?
Previous studies have shown that wisdom is a personality trait underpinning mental health and well-being. Recently, researchers at University of ...
Microbes as sustainable fuel: A better way to make chemicals currently derived from oil and gas
A team of chemists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota has now engineered microbes to ...
What makes a face attractive? How AI interprets the subjective notions of human beauty
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and University of Copenhagen investigated whether a computer would be able to identify the ...
How might COVID’s ‘second wave’ play out? 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic offers bracing precedent
[An] interdisciplinary team [from the University of Zurich and the University of Toronto] compared the Spanish flu of 1918 and ...
Wearable sweat sensor reliably monitors illegal drug use, combatting athletic doping
Traditional drug detection process requires a complex method of extracting suspected drug components from biologic specimens including hair, blood, and ...
Artificial intelligence and urine: New precision tools to diagnose cancer
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men. Patients are determined to have prostate cancer primarily based ...
How the brain compares the present to the past to notice changes in our environments
Imagine you are sitting on the couch in your living room reading. You do it almost every night. But then, ...
How you can train your brain to reduce motion sickness
With the concept of autonomous vehicles coming closer to our roads, the need to reduce motion sickness is more apparent ...
Less lizard, more bird? What Jurassic Park got wrong about this dinosaur
The dinosaur [from Jurrasic Park] is mostly imagination, but a new comprehensive analysis of Dilophosaurus fossils is helping to set ...
Novel DNA analysis technique helps spot mislabeled foods, inaccurate ingredient lists
Estonian scientists are developing a DNA-based method of analysis that enables them to identify food components and specify the origin ...
After injury, the adult brain attempts to repair itself with cells that revert to an embryonic state
When adult brain cells are injured, they revert to an embryonic state, according to new findings published in the April ...
CRISPR-edited yeast could make biofuel production more efficient
Some chemicals used to .... breakdown plants for production of biofuels .... are poison to the yeasts that turn the ...