Identifying the Best Lentils for Climate Change Impacts
An inexpensive plant-based source of protein that can be cooked quickly, lentil is a globally important crop for combating food and nutritional insecurity
Bioinformatics
Scientists Replicate Self-Cleaning Coating of Insects' Eyes
The protective coating might find applications in diverse areas of economics including medicine, nanoelectronics, and the automotive and textile industries
Preserving UK Soil Microbial Biodiversity for Agriculture
New UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank to safeguard future research and facilitate sustainable production of UK's six major food crops
Drugs Aren't Typically Tested on Women. AI Could Correct That Bias
Scientists have developed an algorithm that automatically corrects for the biases in data that stem from an overrepresentation of male subjects in clinical trials
Biosensor Illuminates in Real Time How Viruses Attack Hosts
Understanding how viruses invade host cell protein-making machinery
Cytel Acquires Laiya Consulting, Further Expanding Bayesian Methods and Software Capabilities
Latest step in broadening industry access to the most innovative clinical trial design methods
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Solving Cold Cases
Through advances in DNA sequencing and bioinformatics, the relatively new field of forensic genomics is enabling a broad range of cold cases to be solved
Device Could Help Detect Signs of Extraterrestrial Life
Researchers have developed a fully automated microchip electrophoresis analyzer that, when incorporated into a planetary rover, could someday detect organic biosignatures in extraterrestrial soil
Mutant Tomato Helps to Crack the Secrets of Fruiting
Researchers find that the fruit development process in tomatoes rewires the central metabolism pathway via the plant hormone gibberellin