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Disease resistance successfully spread from modified to wild mosquitoes
This is an Anopheles gambiae mosquito being injected with hemolymph for a malaria research study.
Credit: NIAID
Using genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes to reduce or prevent...
How bacteria survive in oxygen-poor environments
Biofilms are multicellular communities formed by densely-packed microbes that are often associated with persistent infections. Steep gradients of nutrients and oxygen form in these...
Materialists collect Facebook friends and spend more time on social media
People who are highly materialistic tend to use Facebook frequently and intensely.
Credit: © Photographee.eu / Fotolia
If you're materialistic, you're likely to use Facebook more...
Gene drive technologies for ecosystem conservation: Use with care!
Gene drive systems distort the rule that there is a 50:50 chance of a gene copy being passed on. This promotes the inheritance of...
Antibiotics resistance: Researchers succeed to block genes of resistance
Ultimately, reducing the transfer of antibiotic-resistance plasmids could help preserve the potency of antibiotics. (stock image)
Credit: © Leigh Prather / Fotolia
Antibiotics are commonly used...
Schooling fish mainly react to one or two neighbors at a time
School of tuna fish in the ocean.
Credit: © Richard Carey / Fotolia
The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology, developed a new method combining behavioral...
Transparent, incredibly water repellent coatings for everyday applications
Fluoropor coating on a copper thin film.
Credit: Bastian E. Rapp, KIT
Water- and dirt-repellent sportswear and outdoor clothing, or anti-fog windshields -- there are many...
Physicists design $100 handheld cosmic ray muon detector
Physicists at MIT have designed a pocket-sized cosmic ray muon detector to track these ghostly particles.
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers
At any given moment, Earth's...
How the Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks
This image shows a visual representation of one of the highest-energy neutrino detections superimposed on a view of the IceCube Lab at the South...
Quantum computing with molecules for a quicker search of unsorted databases
Upon execution of Grover's quantum algorithm, the terbium single-molecule transistor reads out unsorted databases.
Credit: KIT/Institut Néel
Scrapbooks or social networks are collections of mostly unsorted...
New motion sensors a major step toward low-cost, high-performance wearable technology
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering doctoral candidate Joshua DeGraff developed an advanced class of scalable motion sensors using silver ink electrodes and sheets of pure...
