Fish that display dominant traits are more at risk of consuming microplastic pollution than others in their social group, according to new research. The study, led by the University of Glasgow and published in Proceedings…
Scientists Visualize Structure of Key DNA Repair Component…
[caption id="attachment_13771" align="alignright" width="309"] Artist's concept of Launching the cellular DNA-damage response by the ATR-ATRIP complex. (Image by WANG Guoyan and CHEN Lei, USTC)[/caption] Cells continuously replicate to repair and replace damaged tissue, and each…
New Synthethic Protocol to Form 3D Porous Organic…
A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), has presented a new synthetic protocol to produce three-dimensional porous organic materials in the blink of an eye,…
All-in-one repair kit makes CRISPR gene editing more…
[caption id="attachment_13761" align="alignnone" width="617"] Biomedical engineering graduate student Jared Carlson-Stevermer observes real-time CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing at the microscope. STEPHANIE PRECOURT[/caption] For the past five years, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized the field of gene editing due to its…
Turning emissions into fuel
MIT-developed method converts carbon dioxide into useful compounds. [caption id="attachment_13758" align="alignright" width="639"] XiaoYu Wu pictured with the reactor his team used for the research. MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be…