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Research: Add space salad to the risks astronauts face
University of Delaware researchers grew lettuce under conditions that imitated the weightless environment aboard the International Space Station and found those plants were actually more ...
Home field advantage: Beneficial bacteria could protect turfgrass from damaging disease
Sports leagues from the pros on down use turfgrass because it's a hearty grass that can be mowed to exceedingly short heights and tolerates trampling ...
The Importance of Vitamin K for a Healthy Diet
Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin that plays important roles in blood clotting and in bone metabolism. Sharon Collison, a registered dietitian and instructor of ...
Gene Editing Institute Opens a Unique Learning Lab for High School and College Students
Free program uses CRISPR in a Box™ toolkit to teach the power of gene editing To inspire the next generation of students to pursue careers ...
Aston University develops software to untangle genetic factors linked to shared characteristics among different species
• Has potential to help geneticists investigate vital issues such as antibacterial resistance • Will untangle the genetic components shared due to common ancestry from the ones ...
New research suggests model organisms may have evolved too far
A research team from Aston University and the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham suggest model organisms evolved over 100 years may no longer be fit for ...
Aston University creates world first computational reconstruction of a virus in its biological entirety
First ever computer reconstruction of a virus, including its complete native genome Will open way for investigating biological processes which can’t currently be fully ...
#Expert Research: New National Science Foundation and NASA-Funded Research Investigates Martian Soil
Studies have shown crops can grow in simulated Martian regolith. But that faux material, which is similar to soil, lacks the toxic perchlorates that makes ...
Gene Editing Institute Travels to Salem for ‘Innovation Days’ Workshop
Education sessions bring CRISPR gene editing to high school students from diverse backgrounds Scientist-educators from ChristianaCare’s Gene Editing Institute held a workshop using CRISPR ...
Manuka honey could help to clear deadly drug-resistant lung infection – research
• Scientists develop a potential nebulisation treatment using manuka honey to clear a drug resistant lung infection that can be fatal in cystic fibrosis patients • Aston ...