Jessica Irvine 
DNA repair mechanisms can contribute to chromosome breakage at certain DNA sequences. Credit: Wikimedia Commons (Modified; no author stated) Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brokechromo.jpg We often come to an understanding of what causes a disease. We know, for example, that cancers are caused by mutations at critical locations in the genome, resulting in loss of control of cell …
Future efforts that may help address current challenges in upscaling laboratory studies to ecosystems in soil microbiology research. Credit: Global Change Biology (2022). DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16537 Soil microbiology research increasingly depends on big data. This means that experiments will no longer only mostly be carried out under controlled conditions in the laboratory but will instead move …
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 …