1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (80+ words) Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum, is one of the most destructive plant diseases in the world, striking tomatoes, potatoes, bananas and hundreds of other crops. Once the bacterium establishes itself in a field, it is notoriously…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (587+ words) A team of researchers in China has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of the jumping plant louse Bactericera gobica and, by combining it with nearly every other Triozidae mitogenome available, assembled the most comprehensive genetic dataset ever compiled for…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (55+ words) Gene editing has long promised a revolution in cancer medicine, yet the promise has remained stubbornly out of reach for one deceptively simple reason: getting the CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into tumor cells, and only tumor cells, is extraordinarily difficult. A new…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (582+ words) Exercise is one of the most powerful medicines for the heart, enlarging cardiomyocytes in a healthy way and shielding the organ from the devastating damage that follows a heart attack. Yet the molecular arithmetic behind this benefit has remained stubbornly…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (542+ words) The Wuzhishan miniature pig has long been considered one of the most promising large-animal models for cardiac research and xenotransplantation, prized for its physiological closeness to humans and its manageable size. Yet despite its growing importance in translational medicine, no…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (599+ words) Chemical bonds are usually treated as the fixed scaffolding of a material, the framework that determines how atoms sit relative to one another and how electrons move through the resulting structure. Yet in certain classes of matter, the bonds between…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (617+ words) A team of materials scientists has shown that ordinary green tea can do far more than steep a soothing drink: its polyphenol-rich extract can grow phase-pure nickel oxide nanoparticles that, when embedded in a biodegradable chitosan matrix, transform a humble…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (95+ words) Every seed is a masterpiece of biological engineering, a compact package in which molecular order and cellular design are woven together to protect and nourish a future plant. For scientists trying to understand how crops such as the yellow pea…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (79+ words) A sweeping review published in Discover Electrochemistry has consolidated more than a decade of progress on MXenes, a family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides that many researchers now regard as the most versatile nanoarchitecture in modern energy…...