Producing Human Proteins From Plant Roots
Rhizobium rhizogenes is a bacterium that infects wounded plant stems. The infection results in the development of roots at the wound site (figure 1). These…
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Bio-inspired Slim Polymer Films With Wide Fields Of View And Multiple Imaging Capabilities
Inspired by the behaviour of light-harvesting ommatidia – biological waveguides composed of a lens, crystalline cone and rhabdom – found in the compound eyes of…
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How To Keep Orbits Around The Triple Asteroid System 2001SN263?
Asteroids are celestial bodies much smaller than planets. They have irregular shapes and very weak gravity fields. Space missions around an asteroid can be challenging…
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Linking Biodiversity And Species Richness in Grasslands To Plant Bioenergy Potential
Species-rich grasslands in Europe are biodiversity hotspots, providing multiple ecosystem functions and services. We are experiencing a global loss of species, and one of the…
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Asteroid 1991 VG: Certainly Peculiar But Definitely Not Alien
When small (about 10 meters or 33 feet) near-Earth asteroid (NEA) 1991 VG was discovered in 1991, it was the first one of its kind and…
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Flexible & Safe Heater: A Universal Approach To Control The Pyroresistive Behaviour Of Conductive Polymer Composites
With the rapid development of science and technology nowadays, all aspects of functionalities are supposed to be integrated into the smart materials in order to…
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Detecting The Presence Of Ethanol In Your Kombucha
Kombucha has received significant attention over last few years and has become an increasingly popular beverage with purported health-promoting properties. Kombucha is a traditional fermented…
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Molecules In Space: Physics, Chemistry And Biology
The collaboration between spectroscopists and astrophysicists initiated in the 18th century with the purpose of assigning the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum to atomic…
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Substrates On Which Lichens Grow Appear To Act As Reservoir Of Lichen Photobionts
On the 10th September 1867, at a meeting of the botanical section of the Swiss Society for Natural Sciences, Simon Schwendener announced his opinion that…
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Microbial Taxa Exhibit Distinct Biogeographic Patterns Depending On How Rare They Are
In 1934, Baas Becking had already anticipated the fundamental role played by environmental conditions in shaping microbial communities, by stating that: “Everything is everywhere, but,…
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How Neurons Synchronize In Human Oscillating Systems
Synchronization is a phenomenon that is present in many biological processes such as neurons when performing tasks. However, the phenomenon can also be observed in…
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