Month: June 2017

An Affordable Yeast Based Global Biosensor Tool To Detect Pathogens By: Jessica Guenzel | Columbia University NEWS Columbia University researchers have developed a tool that is likely to revolutionize the way we detect and treat pathogens in everything from human health to agriculture to water. Using only common household baker’s yeast, [..]

A New And More Sustainable Way To Produce The Fuel Additive Ethanol By: MARK SHWARTZ Most cars and trucks in the United States run on a blend of 90 percent gasoline and 10 percent ethanol, a renewable fuel made primarily from fermented corn. But producing the 14 billion gallons of [..]

Utilizing Photosynthesis To Treat Damaged Hearts June 18, 2017 By: Stanford News In the ongoing hunt to find better treatments for heart disease, the top cause of death globally, new research from Stanford shows promising results using an unusual strategy: photosynthetic bacteria and light. Researchers found that by injecting a [..]

Optical Quantum Computing: New Leap By MIT Researchers By: Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office June 17, 2017 Ordinarily, light particles — photons — don’t interact. If two photons collide in a vacuum, they simply pass through each other. An efficient way to make photons interact could open new prospects [..]

Programmed Bacteria With Multicolor Vision By: Rob Matheson | MIT News Office June 5, 2017 MIT researchers have engineered bacteria with “multicolor vision” — E. coli that recognize red, green, or blue (RGB) light and, in response to each color, express different genes that perform different biological functions. To showcase [..]