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In spite of restrictions on the application of insecticides to crops that attract bees, researchers find that residues are still posing a significant risk to the bee population.

Northwestern Engineering researchers have now developed a quick, cell-free system to build and study biosynthetic pathways. Called GlycoPRIME, the system could lead to faster development of therapeutics and a new, modular way to make medicines on demand in resource-limited settings.

In spite of restrictions on the application of insecticides to crops that attract bees, researchers find that residues are still posing a significant risk to the bee population.

Using the Program of the Antarctic Syowa Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere/Incoherent Scatter (PANSY) radar, the largest fine-resolution atmospheric radar in the Antarctic, researchers performed the first incoherent scatter radar observations in the southern hemisphere.

Researchers have engineered E. coli to eat carbon dioxide, which could allow them to be used as “biological factories” for energy.

Foodie tradition dictates only eating wild oysters in months with the letter “r” – from September to April – to avoid watery shellfish, or worse, a nasty bout of food poisoning. Now, a new study suggests people have been following this practice for at least 4,000 years.

Far more microbes are one step away from becoming dangerous than previously thought, say the team managing the world’s only specialist database on the disease-causing genes of microorganisms.

A major clinical trial shows that some men with advanced prostate cancer who have exhausted all other treatment options could live for two years or more on immunotherapy.

It is the the dream of every molecular geneticist: an easy-to-use program that compares data sets from different cellular conditions, identifies enhancer regions and then assigns them to their target genes. A research team led by Martin Vingron at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin has now developed a program that masters all of this.

According to a new mouse study, the increased risk of epigenetic disorders in babies born using fertility treatments is likely due to the technology, not maternal age.