Medicine & TechnologyScientists are currently developing wheat capable of resisting a new variant of rust disease, which threatens large losses to Australia's six-billion-dollar annual grain crop.
SciTech Daily recently reported the discovery of an "end-to-end cyber-biological attack" in which unaware biologists may be deceived into producing hazardous toxins in their laboratories.
The famous Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which has provided priceless service to scientists for more than five decades, is set for dismantling after incurring irreparable damage.
In an attempt to bridge the knowledge gap in the Arctic's climate system, scientists prepare to be marooned in the frozen Arctic Ocean for a full year.
The team set up conditions so that the only mutant genes to thrive are the ones encoding proteins capable of accomplishing the desired function within the cells including activating a particular receptor or switching on specific genes
The most significant discovery of this research is a human antibody that can bind to a highly conserved region of the virus common among different strains of norovirus, potentially neutralizing all GII.4 strains of norovirus that exist in nature
The scientists provided a confident framework for understanding Vesta’s geological timeline, including the massive collision that caused the formation of the thick crust
Researchers have brought this goal a step closer by finding Phloem Unloading Modulator (PLM), a new gene that affects nutrient trafficking by altering the channels connecting neighboring plant cells called plasmodesmata
A sufficient dispersed core of the asteroid that made the impact could remain suspended in the Moon’s mantle until the present day, rather than sinking to the Moon’s core
The new catalyst has the combination of reactive elements in a unique core-shell structure that Brookhaven scientists have been exploring for a range of catalytic reactions to speed up all of these steps