A plasma‐based gas‐phase method for a direct and lower‐cost synthesis of gold nanoparticle and gas entrainment.
Life Science
Can Nature Save Humanity?
Large-scale re-forestation can be a very effective means to decarbonize the future.
Extending Knowledge of Life on Earth and Helping Us Find it Elsewhere
Minute fossils from the depths: Deep life on Earth thrives, is fossilized, and may help us identify life elsewhere.
Paradoxical Survival: Examining the Parrondo Effect Across Biology
A plethora of exciting applications in biology has been found for Parrondo’s paradox, in which losing strategies can be combined to produce winning outcomes.
Cell-free DNA Fragments to Identify Cancer
It is now possible to distinguish the pattern of DNA fragments of normal cells from cancerous cells within the blood of individuals with surgically-operable early stage cancers.1 Regions of the genome have their own local differences in cancer-specific,...
Mechanical Strength in a Nutshell
A novel cell type with interlocked packing found to be responsible for the hardness of walnuts’ shell
Crop Tolerance to Herbicides through Artificial Evolution
The domestication of crops is a directed evolutionary process that has lasted for most of human history. It has allocated naturally occurring mutations that encode traits for higher production, better taste, and convenient cultivation. These traits can better manage...
The Mystery of Horse Domestication Deepens
By a process of elimination, ancient DNA sequences are clarifying the history of horse culture.1 Domestic horses were genetically very diverse for the last five millennia. However, in the last thousand years, this pool of diversity is shallower due to breeding for...
Assessing the Fertility of Sperm
Machine-learning applied to IVF.
Minimal Cells, Maximal Impact
Members of the Max Planck Research Network in Synthetic Biology put together a special issue on synthetic cells for Advanced Biosystems.
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