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Read more at: Green energy and better crops: tinted solar panels could boost farm incomes

Tinted solar panels fitted to a greenhouse roof.

Green energy and better crops: tinted solar panels could boost farm incomes

The Howe Group and their collaborators have demonstrated the use of tinted, semi-transparent solar panels to generate electricity and produce nutritionally-superior crops simultaneously, bringing the prospect of higher incomes for farmers and maximising use of agricultural land.

Read more at: Promoting translational frame-shifting to kill mycobacteria

Crystal structure of the AW7 compound occupying the active site of Mycobacterium abscessus TrmD enzyme.

Promoting translational frame-shifting to kill mycobacteria

The Blundell Group and their collaborators have published an article in Nucleic Acids Research identifying a new class of antibiotics against mycobacteria that target tRNA methylation.

Read more at: Switching on a key cancer gene could provide first curative treatment for heart disease

Adult mouse heart 48 hours after activation of Myc together with Ccnt1 expression.

Switching on a key cancer gene could provide first curative treatment for heart disease

The Evan Group and their collaborators have published a new paper in Nature Communications demonstrating that making the Myc gene overactive and functional in the hearts of mice can trigger heart cell regeneration.

Read more at: Collaboratively accelerating model system development in marine microbial ecology

Immunofluorescence microscopy of Amphidinium carterae showing the expression of an artificially introduced gene.

Collaboratively accelerating model system development in marine microbial ecology

The Nisbet, Howe and Waller Groups are part of an international consortium that has published a new paper detailing the genetic transformation of many marine microbial species for the first time.

Read more at: Magnetised molecules used to monitor breast cancer

An artist's impression of the scan room.

Magnetised molecules used to monitor breast cancer

A new type of scan that involves magnetising molecules allows doctors to see in real-time which regions of a breast tumour are active, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.