A whale named 'Spitfire' swims in the waters off the island of Hallaniyah in southern Oman. Scientists from WCS, AMNH, and the Environment Society of Oman have found that humpback whales inhabiting the Arabian Sea are the most genetically...
Canada geese at a rail yard in Chicago.
Credit: Mike Ward
It's open season for Canada geese in Illinois from mid-October to mid-January. Unfortunately for hunters, Canada geese are finding a new way to stay out of the line of fire....
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 of the secrets of cancer and other diseases lie in the cell's nucleus. But getting...
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 ethanol production.
Credit: Kathryn Faith/University of Illinois
A multi-institutional team led by the University of Illinois have...
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 have engineered gut bacteria capable of sensing colitis, an inflammation of the colon, in mice....
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 health and disease, but there has been a lack of tools to probe the relationship...
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 Gerhardt/Rice University
Rice University bioengineers who specialize in creating tools for synthetic biology have unveiled the...
Engineered bacteria not exposed to inflammatory signals do not turn on the memory circuit and thus remain colorless. In the presence of the inflammatory chemical tetrathionate, the memory circuit switches on and colors the engineered bacteria blue.
Credit: Wyss Institute...
This schematic diagram shows the overall conceptualization of how metabolically engineered E. coli produced TPA from pX. The engineered E. coli was developed through reconstituting a synthetic metabolic pathway for pX conversion to TPA and optimized for increased TPA...
In the periplasm -- the space between the inner and outer membranes of a bacteria's cell wall -- defensive proteins that detect a poison assemble like barrel staves to form a tunnel between pumps in the cell's inner and...
Kansas State University postdoctoral researcher James Nifong documents widespread American alligators' predation of four species of shark like this nurse shark. Credit
Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service J.N. 'Ding' Darling National Wildlife Refuge to use the photo.
Jaws, beware! Alligators...
