Countries' greenhouse gas-cutting pledges put Earth on track for warming far beyond key limits‚ potentially up to a catastrophic 2.9 degrees Celsius this century‚ the UN said Monday‚ warning "we are out of road".

By using single-antibodies‚ Professor Hirohide Saito (Department of Life Science Frontiers) and his team of researchers‚ Shodai Komatsu and Assistant Professor Hirohisa Ohno‚ have developed a novel system to control gene expression in response to any target molecule inside cells‚ and they have employed it to design various synthetic biological circuits‚ including one for cell-specific genome editing.

Wild caviar‚ a pricey delicacy made from sturgeon eggs‚ has been illegal for decades since poaching brought the fish to the brink of extinction. Today‚ legal‚ internationally tradeable caviar can only come from farmed sturgeon‚ and there are strict regulations in place to help protect the species.

Noise is an unseen pollutant with very real health impacts. Like many other forms of pollution‚ because of systemic injustice‚ it affects some people more than others. It also affects wildlife.

Mammals usually mate via penetrative sex‚ but researchers report Nov. 20 in the journal Current Biology that a species of bat‚ the serotine bat‚ (Eptesicus serotinus) mates without penetration. This is the first time non-penetrative sex has been documented in a mammal.

Astrophysicists say they have found an answer to why spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are largely missing from a part of our local universe called the Supergalactic Plane.

The rising resistance of bacteria to antibiotics presents an escalating global health risk. Now‚ researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg‚ Germany‚ have combined synthetic biology and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a more efficient approach to finding and creating new antimicrobial peptides that are effective against a wide range of bacteria. Their paper is published in the journal Nature Communications.

RNA has been in the limelight for its starring role in cutting-edge vaccine technology‚ but RNA molecules are also key players in the inner workings of cells.

Proteins that form clumps occur in many difficult-to-treat diseases‚ such as ALS‚ Alzheimer's‚ and Parkinson's. The mechanisms behind how the proteins interact with each other are difficult to study‚ but now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology‚ Sweden‚ have discovered a new method for capturing many proteins in nano-sized traps. Inside the traps‚ the proteins can be studied in a way that has not been possible before.

An international team of astrophysicists‚ aerospace engineers and balloonists has found that data recovery capsules are a viable means of ensuring data integrity in the event of loss of flight capabilities or communications abilities in balloon-based telescope projects. In their paper published in a special issue of Aerospace‚ the group describes their test of four Data Recovery System (DRS) capsules containing 5 TB of telescopic data sent aboard a helium-filled‚ super-pressurized balloon.