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Feb. 19, 2021 —Microorganisms possess natural product biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) that may harbor unique bioactivities for use in drug development and agricultural applications. However, many uncharacterized ...
Oct. 13, 2020 —The identity of wild cloning sea star larvae has been a mystery since they were first documented in the Caribbean. The most commonly collected cloning species was thought to belong to the ...
Oct. 11, 2022 —A team led by investigators has overcome a major constraint for cutting and editing DNA by CRISPR-Cas enzymes and other ...
Aug. 27, 2020 —Researchers have found that that a mutant strain of sake yeast produces high levels of the amino acid ornithine. Ornithine has been found to reduce fatigue and improve sleep quality, and the ...
Oct. 18, 2021 —A research team led by Dr Karen Wing Yee YUEN, Associate Professor from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), revealed the mechanism of artificial chromosome (AC) ...
Sep. 27, 2021 —If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is the father. When scientists kept running into aggravating problems with the existing tools and methods they were using to perform genetic ...
May 27, 2022 —Researchers have succeeded in understanding the biosynthetic mechanisms for the production of the natural product cyanobacterin, which is produced in small quantities by the cyanobacteria Scytonema ...
Mar. 2, 2022 —All life evolves: microorganisms can become resistant to drugs, viruses evade our vaccines, and species may adapt to climate change. Even the ability to evolve can evolve. If we were to understand ...
Jan. 27, 2022 —The findings will be used to help researchers determine how traits, characteristics and color impact ...
Jan. 4, 2023 —A fungus that infects salamanders contains multiple copies of the same 'jumping genes', scientists have ...