The banana apocalypse is near, but biologists might have found a key to their survival microbiologystudy
The bananas in your supermarket and that you eat for breakfast are facing functional extinction due to the disease Fusarium […]
Blind cavefish have extraordinary taste buds
Over thousands of years, cavefish evolved and lost their vision, earning the moniker “the blind cavefish,” but some cavefish also
Researchers help to control cancer-causing poison in corn microbiologystudy
Corn, a staple food crop consumed by billions of people and animals worldwide, is frequently contaminated by the fungal toxin
Functional Foods: Types, Examples, Production, Benefits microbiologystudy
Food is the source of vitamins and minerals consumed as cell substrates for energy, cell differentiation, and proliferation. It maintains,
Genetics
First successful treatment of pediatric high-risk refractory neuroblastoma with PARP inhibition microbiologystudy
Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists report the first successful treatment of a pediatric patient
Genetics
New way to extend ‘shelf life’ of blood stem cells can improve gene therapy microbiologystudy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have identified a drug already used for cancer patients, that, when applied to current gene
C-section antibiotics impact the infant microbiome far less than infant diet microbiologystudy
Caesarean section recipients are usually given prophylactic antibiotics just before the procedure to prevent later infections at the surgical site.
Nearly 25% of European landscape could be rewilded, researchers say
Europe’s abandoned farmlands could find new life through rewilding, a movement to restore ravaged landscapes to their wilderness before human
Warming waters and nutrient overload: A dangerous combination threatening our rivers and lakes microbiologystudy
The effect of rising water temperatures on ecosystems is likely to interact with pre-existing pressures, such as excess nutrients from