Author - Ngoma Manuel

MIT Programs Memories in Microbes via DNA Editing

MIT researchers have devised a way to program memories into bacterial cells by rewriting their DNA more efficiently. Credit: MIT News, iStockphotoMIT Researchers Devised a Means to Program Memories Into Microbial Cells by Revising Their DNAOrganic engineers at MIT have created a brand-new way to edit bacterial genomes successfully and program memories right into...

Calling Through the DNA Cord

Illustration. Credit: Yuval Robichek, Weizmann Institute of ScienceCalling Through the DNA Cord: A Recently Discovered Genetic "Switch Over."Healthy proteins can connect through DNA, performing a long-distance dialogue that functions as a type of genetic "switch," according to Weizmann Institute of Scientific research scientists. They located that the binding of healthy proteins to one website...

Brain Neurotransmitters Predict Math Ability

Scanning was completed both during Time 1 and Time 2 (approximately 1.5 years later) in each of the 5 age groups (6-year-olds, 10-year-olds, 14-year-olds, 16-year-olds, and 18+-year-olds). Credit: Zacharopoulos G, et al., 2021, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0The neurotransmitters GABA and glutamate have complementary functions - GABA inhibits neurons, while glutamate makes them extra active. Published...

Algorithm to determine the sentence can reduce the length of prison sentences

US prisons currently hold about 2 million detainees - many of them held while awaiting trial, and others serving extremely long prison sentences. New research by Professor Christopher Slobogin, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School, indicates that a risk prediction algorithm can help dramatically reduce these numbers.According to the professor,...

A New Algorithm Can Help Improve the Design of Cell Phone Materials

Four robust micro-structure topologies of extreme metamaterials emerged from the proposed framework. Credit: Swansea UniversityNew research published in Scientific Reports has revealed that a simple but robust new algorithm can help engineers improve the design of cellular materials used in a variety of applications, from defense, biomedical to intelligent structures, and the aerospace sector.Specialized...

Intestinal Microbes Can Help Reverse Brain Aging

Research from APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) at University College Cork (UCC) published August 9, 2021, no leading international scientific journal Nature Aging, presents a new approach to reversing aspects of brain deterioration and cognitive function related to mid-ageing of the microbes in the intestine.Microbe-Based Interventions: A Promising Approach to Reverse Brain Deterioration in Mid-AgeingAs...

New Invention Produces More Pure RNA at a Fraction of the Cost

3D illustration of an RNA chain. Credit: Christopher Burgstedt/Getty ImagesThe Future of Medicine: New Invention Produces More Pure RNA at a Fraction of the CostResearchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently revealed their discovery of a new RNA production process. The RNA resulting from this process is purer, more copious, and probably more...

Researcher Invents a Toilet that Transformers Human Feces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6z5OduN8voResearcher at a South Korean university UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) has developed a toilet that turns human feces into energy. As a bonus incentive, it provides a small amount of digital currency to be exchanged for coffee or a cup of noodles on campus.How the "generator" that produces energy from...

Agriculture the Key to Driving Climate Change Response

Photomontage / Shutterstock.comIn the time of climate change, a panel of organic farmers discussed the trials of farming and, highlighted how the people and the planet have primary importance now that agriculture is in the most favorable positionThe severe growth of the impact of raising climate change on a liable system poses a substantial...

How Scientists Found Rare Fireball Meteorite Pieces on a Driveway — and What They Could Teach us

Image of the fireball in 28 February. (Image credit: UK Meteor Observation Network, Author provided)Scientists Track Meteorite Fall Over Cheltenham, UKMonica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences in the Open University, related who on February 28th at 21:54 GMT, around the time of the late evening news in the UK, an extra news story...