Jessica Irvine 
The Pando aspen grove in southcentral Utah after a thunderstorm. Credit: Jeff Rice Spread across 106 acres in southcentral Utah, the Pando aspen grove resembles a forest but is actually a single organism with more than 47,000 genetically identical aspen stems connected at the root. Pando is the world’s largest tree by weight and land …
The study, published in Microbiology Spectrum, focuses on the cleavage of MCR-1 by DegP. The article includes an immunoblotting analysis of various E. coli isolates carrying the mcr-1 gene and a comparison of the PBD of different alleles of MCR-1. Colistin is a crucial antibiotic of last resort for treating multidrug-resistant bacteria. However, the global …
(left) 5-year-old AAE girl’s production of “elephant.” When the /t/ sound in /nt/ is produced the AAE speaker produces less aspiration noise. The /t/ sound exists for a shorter period in time relative to the WAE /t/ production. The duration of the word is 740 milliseconds (.74 seconds). (right) 5-year-old WAE girl’s production of “elephant.” …
Differentiated immortalized bovine stem cells with fully expressed muscle proteins (blue = nuclei; magenta = myogenin; green = myosin). Scale approx 1 mm. Credit: Andrew Stout, Tufts University To make it possible for cellular agriculture—the process of growing meat in bioreactors—to feed millions of people, several technical challenges will have to be overcome. Muscle cells …
The working principle of the MQPG (left) and description in frequency space (right): in the MQPG waveguide, the input photons (orange) are demultiplexed to different output frequencies (green) on the basis of their TM. The TMs to be measured are selected by shaping the pump field (blue). Credit: PRX Quantum (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.020306 The development …
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An increasing number of Floridians agree that human actions are causing climate change, including a record number of Florida Republicans, according to a new survey from Florida Atlantic University. This finding reinforces the trend observed in the prior seven Florida Climate Resilience Surveys, conducted by FAU’s Center for Environmental Studies within …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain According to a new report, over half of gig economy workers in the UK are paid below the minimum wage as the cost of living continues to rise. The University of Bristol led the first-of-its-kind study, which found that 52% of gig economy workers performing tasks ranging from data entry to …
Workflow to measure and interpret protein correlated motion using X-ray crystallography. Credit: Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36734-3 A novel two-part method for interpreting X-ray crystallography experiments on protein crystals has been developed by researchers at Cornell University. The method, outlined in a paper published on March 3 in Nature Communications, enables data, which was formerly …
Foods that Dollar Store Shoppers Purchased in Last 30 Days, April 2023. Credit: Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability A market for an expanded grocery selection at dollar stores potentially exists, especially with consumers who live less than 10 minutes away, according to data reported in the April Consumer Food Insights report. The survey-based …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study by researchers at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University revealed that a groundbreaking protein nanoparticle vaccine formulation, containing influenza proteins and adjuvant that enhances immune responses, delivered complete protection against influenza viral challenges. Published in the journal Small, the findings describe a promising influenza vaccine …