A team of researchers in China has used a form of the CRISPR gene editing technique…
Month: August 2018
Amazonian rainfall increases in wet season
Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the Amazonian rainforest plays an important…
New molecular wires for single-molecule electronic devices
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of molecular wire doped with organometallic…
FeCo-selenide—a possible next-generation material for energy storage devices
In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue of Nano, a team of researchers…
Metabolic engineering of E. coli for the secretory production of free haem
Researchers of KAIST have defined a novel strategy for the secretory production of free haem using…
Researchers reveal the growth of graphene near polycrystalline substrate grain boundaries
In a paper published in Nano, a team of researchers from the Laboratory of Graphene Mechanics…
East Asian monsoon dynamics discovery
In the online edition of Geophysical Research Letters, Dr. Cheung Ching Wa Richard, Dr. Moriaki Yasuhara,…
Biodegradable plastic blends offer new options for disposal
Imagine throwing your empty plastic water bottle into a household composting bin that breaks down the…
Mangrove expansion and climatic warming may help ecosystems keep pace with sea level rise
Biologists have documented that coastal wetlands in the southeastern United States are responding positively to rising…
New way to break cancer’s vicious cycle
This study reveals how some tumors fuel their own growth and how stopping this vicious cycle…