Scientists engineer unique 'glowing' protein  EurekAlertBiophysicists from MIPT and their colleagues from France and Germany have created a new fluorescent protein. Besides glowing when irradiated with ultraviolet ... Read more https://www.eurek …

New genetic engineering strategy makes human-made DNA invisible  EurekAlertIn a paper published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, Dr. Christopher Johnston and his colleagues at the Forsyth ... Read more htt …

EurekAlert (press release)UAlberta mechanical engineering in hot pursuit of creeping bacteria ...EurekAlert (press release)(Edmonton) University of Alberta mechanical engineering professor Aloke Kumar and members of his lab are hot on the trail of bacteria …

MarketWatchOil futures sink, set for 2nd weekly July lossMarketWatch“As inventories remain well above year-ago levels for crude and gasoline, and as demand fails to be as strong as [some] hope, there is the fear that the ongoing oil and gasoline glut is tu …

A 'smart dress' for oil-degrading bacteriaEurekAlert (press release)The development of biofilms on hydrophobic surface is a very important feature of A. borkumensis cells because this is how these cells attach to the oil droplets in natural environ …

EurekAlert (press release)Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University.EurekAlert (press release)To speed up identification of the most efficient producers, researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering describe new appr …

EurekAlert (press release)Root microbiome engineering improves plant growthEurekAlert (press release)In their own labs, the authors--Ulrich Mueller of the University of Texas at Austin and Joel Sachs of the University of California, Riverside--have seen mi …