Nicotine, a potent insecticidal alkaloid unique to the nightshade family, has been employed in agriculture as a pesticide ...

When Lowell’s First Look debuted 10 years ago, it was a pioneer in providing news online to the Lowell community. Our first ...

In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally evolved gene-editing system that can activate genes, offering an advantage ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

GA, UNITED STATES, March 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — In some of the planet’s darkest and most complex aquatic environments, conventional sensors struggle to see ...

In this video, Arc Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Vincent Tran walks through MULTI-evolve, an AI-guided framework that compresses protein engineering from months of iterative experimentation into weeks ...

If we’re really going to the dogs, that may not be such a bad thing. Dr. Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology and psychology at Duke University, delighted audiences with what we can ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops from roughly 36 pulses a minute to nearer 30, and the animal slips into a ...