How a Plant Hormone Slows Apple Ripening by Rewriting Protein Fate | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Ethylene is a central hormone controlling ripening in climacteric fruits such as apple, tomato, and banana, coordinating color change, softening, and flavor development. While manipulating ethylene production has long been a target for improving fruit storage, most approaches focus on enzyme activity or gene expression rather than upstream regulatory mechanisms. Salicylic acid […]
Harrisburg University Students Design Oyster-Based Aquaculture System for Space Exploration | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — HARRISBURG, PA – The future of space exploration is currently hampered by humankind’s ability to sustainably provide nutrition, environmental control, and life support for long-duration human spaceflight. NASA’s Biology & Physical Sciences Division outlined these gaps in a 2024 report entitled, A New Era in Space: Ensuring the Future of Biological and Physical Sciences Research: A […]
“Plastic-Eating” Fusion Enzyme Improves Polyester Textile Recycling | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — In a study published in Bioresource Technology Journal, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report that a specially engineered enzyme can significantly speed up the breakdown of PET – the plastic used in water bottles, food packaging and polyester clothing – when it is processed at high concentrations similar to those used in industry. PET, short for poly (ethylene terephthalate), […]
How Antibiotic-Degrading Bacteria Shield Microbial Communities From Collapse | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — By comparing natural microbial adaptation with targeted bioaugmentation using an antibiotic-degrading strain, the study reveals how biodegradation capacity fundamentally reshapes microbial succession, stability, and resilience under sustained antibiotic exposure. Environmental risk assessments often judge antibiotics solely by concentration and intrinsic toxicity, assuming uniform microbial responses. However, microbial communities actively shape contaminant fate, […]
Team Simulates a Living Cell That Grows and Divides | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the essential processes of life. The researchers, led by chemistry professor Zan Luthey-Schulten, present their findings in the journal […]
Most mass spectrometers can process just a few molecules at once. A reengineered prototype does a billion simultaneously | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are present in a given sample. But most instruments still analyze their molecules one or just a few at a time, an approach that is inefficient and costly, and in which rare, but significant molecules can easily […]
Five Georgia Tech Faculty Named to NAI Senior Members Class of 2026 | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Five faculty members from Georgia Tech have been elected as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). As members, they are recognized as distinguished academic inventors with a strong record of patenting technologies, licensing IP, and commercializing their research. Their innovations have made, or have the potential to make, meaningful impacts on society. “The election […]
Target the Tumor. Spare the Body | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Exhaustion creeps in. Appetite vanishes. Hair thins. The person in the mirror looks gaunt. It’s the paradox of cancer treatment: The same drugs meant to save a life can also wear the body down. Nick Housley, assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Biological Sciences, wants to change that. He studies where […]
Changing the Playing Field in Nickel Catalysis | Newswise
[ad_1] BYLINE: Tracy Crane, Department of Chemistry Newswise — Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported a breakthrough in nickel catalysis that harnesses a rare oxidation state of nickel that has proved challenging to control yet is highly valued for its potential to facilitate important chemical reactions. The researchers, led by Liviu Mirica, a […]
A Smashing Success: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Wraps up Final Collisions
[ad_1] Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions — oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons — circulated through the twin 2.4-mile-circumference rings of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and crashed into one another at nearly the speed of light inside the collider’s two […]