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2+ hour, 46+ min ago  (324+ words) That hardening is already happening with the new embryo gene editing protocol. Media outlets have described it as enabling meticulous and precise gene editing in embryos. Such language implies that heritable human genome editing is – or soon will be – safe....

4+ hour, 30+ min ago  (257+ words) The research helps explain a long-standing biological mystery: why cyanobacteria invest energy in forming flocs despite the apparent cost to their growth. The findings suggest the behaviour is an evolved defense mechanism that could have implications extending from microbial ecology…...

9+ hour, 34+ min ago  (341+ words) For the first time, astronomers have detected a complex four-carbon sugar molecule, erythrulose, in the interstellar gas clouds near the center of the Milky Way. In a groundbreaking discovery that redraws the boundaries of astrobiology, an international team of astronomers…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (48+ words) How did life emerge from a lifeless planet? This article explores the scientific quest to understand abiogenesis, from the formation of organic molecules on early Earth to the RNA World hypothesis and the emergence of protocells. It examines how simple…...

10+ hour, 27+ min ago  (310+ words) Climate change and disease pressure are making gene-editing increasingly important to the future success of the banana sector, argues agri-scientist James Dale Gene editing has big potential for future varietal development in bananas The two dominant types of Cavendish, Grand…...

11+ hour, 17+ min ago  (385+ words) For the first time, scientists have detected a sugar molecule floating in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the centre of the Milky Way. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggests that compounds fundamental to life can…...

7+ hour, 16+ min ago  (383+ words) Metabolite “Glues” Find a More Flexible Way to Attack Cancer Targets Researchers have uncovered why certain designed small molecules—called metabolite glues—can lock a regulatory protein into a harmful complex, and they used that insight to engineer stronger versions....

15+ hour, 22+ min ago  (456+ words) Genome-edited perilla plants (left) showing a striking color change from red to green and enhanced accumulation of the health-promoting flavonoid luteolin. (Matsushita et al. / Hiroshima Prefectural Technology Research Institute) From traffic lights to fashion trends, changing from red to green…...

9+ hour, 6+ min ago  (207+ words) The grant concentrates on Candida species, which can pose operational risks by contaminating and degrading DOW-relevant systems. Such systems include aircraft fuel infrastructure, vehicles, electronics, and protective coatings. In these environments, fungi can persist and spread, turning microbial management into…...

10+ hour, 15+ min ago  (135+ words) LMU researchers have reported a striking challenge to a long-standing textbook rule of photosynthesis: oxygenic photosynthesis can, in principle, occur without photosystem I. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows that certain cyanobacteria continued to grow, fix carbon dioxide, and release…...