It’s hard to make things work in space, and even harder to make money there. With a long history in the space industry and a handful of healthy companies, Canadians are good at both. But industry executives and experts say the country needs a boost to maintain an edge in a sector poised to soar. …
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The global energy crisis is driving a surge in renewable energy installations, with total capacity growth worldwide expected to nearly double over the next five years, overtaking coal as the main source of electricity generation along the way and helping to maintain the possibility of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, indicates the IEA in a …
When Brad Collett gave his landscape architecture students a project to redesign the Tennessee River Valley, he had no idea they would come up with an idea that could change the area’s relationship with one of its essential natural resources. Nearly six years later, what began as a classroom project in 2016 has blossomed into …
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Phages (seen here attacking a bacterial cell) could use CRISPR-Cas systems to compete with each other – or to manipulate gene activity in their hosts.Credit: Biophoto Associates/SPL A systematic scan of viral genomes has revealed a wealth of potential CRISPR-based genome editing tools. CRISPR-Cas systems are common in the microbial world of bacteria and archaea, …
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Dublin, Nov. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Market, By Test Type, By Application, By End-User and By Region – Size, Share, Outlook and Opportunity Analysis , 2022-2030″ report has been added to from ResearchAndMarkets.com offer. Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) is also known as Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening (NIPS). This is a procedure …
MMicroRNAs – extracts of nucleic acids of about ten base pairs – are so small that they went unnoticed for decades despite their enormous influence on our cells. They are now known to suppress the expression of thousands of genes through a process called RNA interference, in which they bind to messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and …
Artistic impression of a unimon qubit in a quantum processor. Credit: Aleksandr Kakinen A group of scientists from Aalto University, IQM Quantum Computers and VTT Technical Research Center have discovered a new superconducting qubit, the unimon, to increase the precision of quantum calculations. The team achieved the first quantum logic gates with 99.9% fidelity unimons, …
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Garth Stearn, LIC Territory Manager, had recently visited Rob’s farm with local Agricultural Manager James Agnew: “Using performance data from Rob’s herd, we have helped him understand what type of cow is most efficient in its dairy farming system.While cows often look alike, there are cows and groups of cows in the herd that genetically …
