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New technology assures longer shelf life, season of mangoes
24/03/2018
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Mango lovers now have a reason to rejoice. The fruit, which floods the markets during summer, usually vanishes after that. Now, researchers at the department of nano-science and technology of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) have come up wit...
Lab made hormone may reveal secret lives of plants
19/03/2018
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A new synthetic hormone promises to tease apart the many different roles of the plant hormone auxin and could lead to a new way to ripen fruit.
By developing a synthetic version of the plant hormone auxin and an engineered receptor to recognize it...
New Smartphone Sensor Checks Your Blood Pressure
13/03/2018
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Blood pressure is a growing worldwide problem. More than a third of Americans have high blood pressure, a major cause of heart failure, heart attack, stroke, and chronic kidney disease. Measuring your blood pressure could one day be as simple as pres...
Belgian PhD Student Decodes DNA and Wins a Bitcoin
29/01/2018
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Sander Wuyts, a Ph.D. student from the University of Antwerp (UAntwerp) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) completed an extraordinary competition that involved bitcoin and DNA-related research. Wuyts was the first to decipher hidden messages in a ...
Moving Blood Tests from the Lab to the Consumer
21/01/2018
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It would be great to think that a portable device in your home that, with a drop of blood from a finger prick, could tell you instantly your blood cell counts, vitamin levels, or whether you’re positive for a virus. That’s the dream device of many en...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions
10/03/2016
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The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...