Monthly Archives: November 2016
Who’s Top Monkey? How Social Status Affects Immune Health
Social hierarchies among rhesus macaques give rise to differences in their ability to respond to bacterial and viral invaders Life for female rhesus macaques is a little like...
‘Freeze-frame’ proteins show how cancer evolves
https://youtu.be/DBOpkEhHzjA Scientists from Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and other institutions are using synthetic biology to capture elusive, short-lived...
Countries Leading in Biotechnology Industry – Global Rankings
Ranking the Top Biotech Countries The United States ranks first in the number of biotech firms, PCT patent applications, and biomedical treatment approvals, with Spain coming...
Small or Big farms, both are equally important in the fight against climate
Just four days before the US elections, the Paris Agreement officially became international law after receiving formal sign-off from 55 countries that contribute 55% of global...
WISE Awards 2016 Winners Announced
Credit @ WISE Eight women, one company and one man were recognised tonight for their outstanding contributions to gender balance in science, technology and engineering at a...
Nylon fibers made to flex like muscles
Credit @ Felice Frankel and Seyed Mohammad Mirvakili Artificial muscles — materials that contract and expand somewhat like muscle fibers do — can have many applications,...
The End of Biotechnolgy As we Know it.
If there were no biotechnology, the world would stand still. “Biotechnologically derived drugs dominate therapy with eight of the top ten best-selling drugs are produced using...
Turning waste into wealth in a single step
Lignin is a bulky chain of molecules found in wood and is usually discarded during biofuel production. But in a new method by EPFL chemists, the simple addition of formaldehyde...
Balloon ‘Pill’ Helped Obese Patients Lose Weight
Obese patients who swallowed balloon capsules that helped them eat less lost an average of 15 pounds, roughly two times more weight than patients who just dieted and exercised,...
Future climate change field test doesn’t make Earth greener
In the course of a 17-year experiment on more than 1 million plants, scientists put future global warming to a real world test — growing California flowers and grasslands with...