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6+ hour, 32+ min ago   (262+ words) With the US Pharmacopeia’s landmark publication of USP, ATP bioluminescence-based microbiological testing has achieved compendial status for short-life drug products, delivering results at least 50 percent faster than traditional culture methods. Here we trace the remarkable journey of this technology. The…...

7+ hour, 13+ min ago   (335+ words) A new artificial intelligence–guided strategy can design highly divergent yet functional variants of TnpB, a compact RNA-guided nuclease that is evolutionarily related to CRISPR-Cas12 enzymes. By combining a structure-based inverse protein-folding model with evolutionary constraints, they generated synthetic nucleases…...

9+ hour, 18+ min ago   (1077+ words) By L.A. Warren University of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON – About one in 10 people in the U.S. lives with a rare disease, and roughly 80 percent of those conditions have an underlying genetic cause, according to the National Organization for Rare Disease. Many…...

10+ hour, 37+ min ago   (369+ words) The study, published in Nature Genetics, was co-led by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Murdoch University’s Centre for Crop and Food Innovation. The resulting pan-genome includes more than 75,000 gene families and over 66,000 structural variants. Researchers linked…...

23+ hour, 42+ min ago   (385+ words) Expert opinion from University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau “I don’t know what the answer is around environmental ethics. It’s not part of my current thinking.” – former science minister Dr Shane Reti, select committee testimony, March 5, 2025 Comment: The Gene Technology…...

22+ hour, 2+ min ago   (257+ words) The NZ Initiative argued in its 2025 submission that the HSNO regime has stalled productivity and made R&D unnecessarily difficult and costly. BioTechNZ’s February 2025 submission backed modernising the outdated framework. On the case for reform, the business argument is strong…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (213+ words) Astrobiology Web [PLOS Biology] A simple and parsimonious solution assumes the first gene sequences evolved inside dividing protocells, which enables selection for functional sets. But this model of information maintenance does not consider how protocells acquired their genetic information in…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (254+ words) SFL Educational News Service The Core Concept: Sea anemones possess the robust ability to regenerate into a fully formed organism from disorganized cell clusters within days, relying entirely on intrinsic cellular self-organization. Future Application: By understanding these highly efficient, conserved…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (209+ words) German molecular biologists have for the first time traced how different components of the influenza virus interact with cellular systems during infection. This allowed them to uncover two key mechanisms that help the virus produce new copies, the European Molecular…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1692+ words) Nature Microbiology (2026) Cite this article Kallmeyer, J., Pockalny, R., Adhikari, R. R., Smith, D. C. & D’Hondt, S. Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 109, 16213–16216 (2012). Magnabosco, C. et al. The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface. Nat. Geosci....