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Multifunctional Patch Offers Early Detection of Plant Diseases, Other Crop Threats

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an electronic patch that can be applied to the leaves of plants to monitor crops for different pathogens – such as viral and fungal infections – and stresses such as drought or salinity.

Disparities in Diabetic Eye Care

Nature Ecology and Evolution Study Reveals Precipitation’s Effect on Plant-Soil Interaction

Disparities in Diabetic Eye Care

Because diabetes is the leading cause of new, preventable cases of blindness in working aged adults in the United States, medical experts suggest patients have dilated eye examinations after their first diabetes diagnosis.

Perfume Component Helps Lure Male Moth Pests

North Carolina State University researchers have shown that adding a small amount of a chemical used in perfumes – nonanal – to a two-chemical combination of other sex pheromones helped increase the cocktail’s effectiveness in mimicking female fall armyworm “come hither” calls to males.

Engineers Explore the Source of Dreams and Thoughts

Expanding work permits for undocumented immigrants could fix the United States immigration system’s “large, overlooked and often invisible crack” that fails to account for essential workers

Engineers Explore the Source of Dreams and Thoughts

Light-powered catalyst makes hydrogen energy from pungent gas in one-step process

Engineers Explore the Source of Dreams and Thoughts

Rice lab’s 3D electrode array reveals millisecond evolution of synaptic activity

Even Good Gene Edits Can Go Bad

Rice lab develops procedure to find large deletions, other anomalies in ‘on-target’ CRISPR-Cas9 editing

NC State Researchers Assemble Pathogen ‘Tree of Life’

A new online tool – the first of its kind for plant pathogens – will help researchers across the globe identify, detect and monitor species of Phytophthora, which have been responsible for plant diseases ranging from the devastating 1840s Irish potato famine to sudden oak death that still plagues in West Coast oak populations.

Can Investigators Use Household Dust as a Forensic Tool?

A North Carolina State University-led study found it is possible to retrieve forensically relevant information from human DNA in household dust.

Prehistoric Poo Reveals ‘Waves’ of Extinction in Colombia

Fungal spores found in dung have revealed that large animals went extinct in two “waves” in the Colombian Andes.

Plant Species Might Not Need to Move Far for Favourable Climates

Plant species may only need to move short distances to track their preferred habitats as the climate changes, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change.

Female Butterflies Breed Despite Male Shortage

Female African monarch butterflies have no trouble finding a mate – even when a parasite kills most of the males, new research shows.

Study Reveals How Pollinators Cope with Plant Toxins

Pollinators such as honeybees produce special enzymes that detoxify defence chemicals produced by plants, new research shows.

Decades Of Data Show Impact Of Earlier Snowmelt On Plant Populations

Professor Diane Campbell in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, whose research focuses on understanding how evolution takes place in real time in nature, recently published a paper with her colleagues Mary Price, Nickolas Waser, Rebecca Irwin and Alison Brody at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.

Immune Function Restored In Suppressed T Cells

Professor Roberto Tinoco in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, who explores how the immune system can fight disease, recently published a paper with his lab that outlines a novel approach to activating dysfunctional T cells to fight skin cancer or melanoma.

How A Protein Breaks Free To Cause Deadly Cancers

UCI-led finding helps propel search for improved treatments

Remembering Professor Krishna K. Tewari

The legacy of Professor Krishna K. Tewari, former chair of the department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, lives on through those he cared for, supported, mentored and worked alongside.

How Life Works Is His Life’s Work

UCI professor of developmental and cell biology seeks answers to how genes are regulated

Socio-Economic Inequalities in Access to Joint Replacement Surgery in England

The provision of joint replacement surgery in England is subject to socio-economic inequalities, despite a years-long effort to reduce them.