Alejandra Manjarrez
Sustainable forestry: CRISPR-edited trees could boost fiber production efficiency and reduce the paper industry’s carbon footprint
Humans have domesticated numerous crops, but trees have largely escaped us. This is because breeding new tree varieties takes many decades ...
How CRISPR trees could help us create optimized paper of the future
Wood consists of about 25 percent lignin, but the paper and fiber industries remove it because it lowers the quality ...
New insomnia treatments on the horizon? Different areas of the brain have unique sleep schedules, paving the way for new therapies
Dolphins can swim with one hemisphere asleep while the other is alert, and some neurons in sleep-deprived rats can “switch ...