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How People Perceive Sour Flavors: Proton Current Drives Action Potentials in Taste Cells
November 24, 2010 — Tart cranberry sauce is part of Thanksgiving, and a new study reveals a surprising mechanism for how we perceive sourness: a proton current in taste ... > full story -
Researchers Train Bacteria to Convert Bio-Wastes Into Plastic
November 19, 2010 — Researchers have 'trained' bacteria to convert all the main sugars in vegetable, fruit and garden waste efficiently into high-quality environmentally friendly products such as ... > full story -
FDA Review on Transgenic Salmon Too Narrow, Experts Say
November 18, 2010 — The review process being used by the Food and Drug Administration to assess the safety of a faster-growing transgenic salmon fails to weigh the full effects of the fish's widespread production, ... > full story -
How Anthrax Bacteria Impair Immune Response
November 17, 2010 — Researchers have determined a key mechanism by which Bacillus anthracis bacteria initiate anthrax infection despite being greatly outnumbered by immune system scavenger cells. The finding, made by ... > full story -
Pre-Injury Exercise May Mitigate the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice
November 16, 2010 — Being physically fit before a traumatic brain injury (TBI) might improve recovery, preliminary findings suggest. After TBI, mice bred for running behavior exhibited smaller brain lesions and engaged ... > full story -
Appearance Not Always Enough to Identify Species
November 16, 2010 — Linnaean taxonomy is still a cornerstone of biology, but modern DNA techniques have erased many of the established boundaries between species. This has made identifying species difficult in practice, ... > full story -
Natural Selection on Not-So-Natural Plants
November 10, 2010 — New research shows that while a genetically modified squash plant may be resistant to common virus transmitted by aphids, it's no match for bacteria transmitted by ... > full story -
Robust Methods for GMO Detection Ready at Hand
November 10, 2010 — A new Reference Report lists 79 reference methods for GMO analysis which have been validated according to international standards. This Compendium presents the technical state of the art in GMO ... > full story -
Spontaneous GMOs in Nature: Researchers Show How a Genetically Modified Plant Can Come About
November 4, 2010 — Genetically modified plants can come about by natural means. A research group in Sweden has now described the details of such an event among higher plants. It is likely that the gene transfer was ... > full story -
Plants Engineered to Produce New Drugs
November 3, 2010 — Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by genetically ... > full story
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