Together with the Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI) Thermo Fisher Scientific plans to advance the next phase of the large-scale predictive genomics study and support its goal of genotyping one million people in Taiwan.

Plants form symbiotic relationships with microbes in the soil to promote their growth. However, researchers from the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that competition between different strains of these bacteria can negatively affect their benefit to the host plant.

Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) have partnered with scientists at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Jamstec) to carry out research on the red sea. The team is making use of specialized technologies in order to better understand the deep-water environment.

Researchers have developed a novel way to detect whether a person follows a Mediterranean diet using a blood test and, applying this method, have shown that a Mediterranean diet is associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes.

Researchers have made use of the artificial intelligence technology to identify genes that shape our skeletons. With the help of this study, researchers can now also provide insights on a person’s past as well as reveal their potential risks for future ailments.

Researchers from Brazil showed that Amazonian dark earth (ADE), soils enriched by Amerindian people thousands of years ago, increases the establishment and growth of seedlings of tree species important for reforestation. By copying the composition of ADE, especially its microbes, reforestation in Brazil and elsewhere could be sped up.

Usually, electronic devices consist of circuit boards that are bulky and difficult to recycle. Researchers have now developed a prototype of a paper-based circuit board that is flexible, thin and one that can be completely disposed of after usage.

University of Bristol’s Professor Nathan Lepora and his team were recently awarded at the Elektra Awards, an event which recognises excellence within the global electronics industry, for their innovative robotic finger-tip which makes human-like ‘nerve’ signals.

Researchers at the Emory University and Georgia State University in the USA will be establishing a new drug development center aimed at preventing the next pandemic. With a federal funding of 52 million dollars, the new center will be led and co-founded by researchers who have successfully collaborated on antiviral drugs in the past.

Denmark's first plant to produce hydrogen by catalytic pyrolysis of biogas will be ready in three years. The technology can convert carbon — captured via photosynthesis — into solid form and simultaneously produce hydrogen very energy-efficiently.