Light and electron microscopy each have their distinct limitations – with light it becomes increasingly difficult to resolve smaller and smaller features while electron microscopy can resolve small structures but its samples must be meticulously prepared which will kill any live specimens. And then there is atomic force microscopy (AFM) which is a technique originally … Read more
Bird poop on your lettuce might not be as risky as you think. Researchers at the University of California, Davis found that small bird droppings aren’t much of a food safety risk for crops, pushing back against long-held fears that wildlife near farms could spread harmful pathogens such as E. coli, as reported on Phys.org. … Read more
Study advances gene-editing capabilities for cancer and medical research through genetic manipulations using Cas12a enzyme Australian cancer researchers have been the first to establish a novel gene-editing tool for modelling and interrogating human disease. A pre-clinical model expressing an enhanced version of a new genome-engineering enzyme called Cas12a was generated by researchers at the Olivia … Read more
Breast cancer | Image Credit: © Sebastian Kaulitzki – stock.adobe.com Findings from a multi-institutional, international study led by researchers from the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center have significantly advanced the understanding of genetic alterations in the BRCA2 gene, a key player in hereditary cancer risk. The researchers completed a comprehensive functional assessment of all possible … Read more