Astronomers Find Potential Solution Into How Planets Form
This image shows V1247 Orionis, a young, hot star surrounded by a dynamic ring of gas and dust, known as a circumstellar disc. The...
Solar Research: NASA Sounding Rocket Instrument Spots Signatures of Long-Sought Small Solar Flares
The NASA-funded FOXSI instrument captured new evidence of small solar flares, called nanoflares, during its December 2014 flight on a suborbital sounding rocket. Nanoflares...
Powerful optical imaging technology catches DNA naturally fluorescing
A powerful Northwestern University imaging tool is the first to measure the structure of isolated chromosomes without the use of fluorescent labels.
Credit: Northwestern University
Many...
Heart Tissue Grown on Spinach Leaves
In this sequence, a spinach leaf is stripped of its plant cells, a process called decellularization, using a detergent. The process leaves behind the...
Scientists engineer sugarcane to produce biodiesel, more sugar for ethanol
Researchers extract juice from sugarcane that has been engineered to produce oil for biodiesel in addition to the plant's sugar that is used for...
Synthetic Biologists Engineer Inflammation-Sensing Gut Bacteria
Synthetic biologists at Rice University have engineered orally ingestible gut bacteria capable of sensing colitis in mice.
Credit: J. Tabor/Rice University
Synthetic biologists at Rice University...
New Tools Visualize Where Bacterial Species Live in the Gut, Control Their Activity
This figure shows different Bacteroides species in the mouse gut encoded with unique fluorescent signatures.
Credit: Whitaker et al./Cell 2017
Gut microbes play wide-ranging roles in...
Dual-channel biological function generator
Rice University’s latest new dual-function bioscilloscope uses a Light Plate Apparatus, or LPA, that is outfitted with the spectral LEDs.
Credit: Image courtesy of Karl...
Remembrance of Things Past: Bacterial Memory of Gut Inflammation
Engineered bacteria not exposed to inflammatory signals do not turn on the memory circuit and thus remain colorless. In the presence of the inflammatory...
Bio-based p-xylene oxidation into terephthalic acid by engineered E. coli
This schematic diagram shows the overall conceptualization of how metabolically engineered E. coli produced TPA from pX. The engineered E. coli was developed through...
E. Coli Bacteria’s Defense Secret Revealed
In the periplasm -- the space between the inner and outer membranes of a bacteria's cell wall -- defensive proteins that detect a poison...
