APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Agriculture Pesticide resistance ADVANTAGES: Protects against toxic environmental chemicals Expands the metabolic potential of an individual’s microbiome for detoxification ABSTRACT: Berkeley Lab researchers led by Susan Celniker, Ben Brown, and Ken Wan have developed a technology to address pesticide sensitivity in … [Read more...] about Probiotics to Convey Resistance to Pesticide Poisoning 2017-083
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Spectroscopic Imaging and Analysis of Live Cells 2015-077
ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab led by Hoi-Ying Holman have developed technologies for measurement, visualization, and analysis of chemical dynamics in living cells or tissues for diagnostic pathology. Devices can be open- or closed-channel microfluidic membrane devices for long-term IR spectroscopy of live adherent cells and ultimately for rapidly identifying … [Read more...] about Spectroscopic Imaging and Analysis of Live Cells 2015-077
Inhibiting Growth of Diverse Bacteria and Plant Pathogens 2018-006
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Agriculture for food, bioenergy, and carbon sequestration Human health research ADVANTAGES: Highly efficient in killing competing bacteria ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Joint Genome Institute in collaboration with scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the Swiss Federal … [Read more...] about Inhibiting Growth of Diverse Bacteria and Plant Pathogens 2018-006
Increased Specificity and Sensitivity to Detect Targeted Metabolites using NIMS 2017-051
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Biological and chemical assays Selective metabolite analysis ADVANTAGES: Increased sensitivity to detect targeted metabolites High selectivity to targeted metabolites Extremely sensitive and non-destructive analytical technique ABSTRACT: Nanostructure-initiator Mass Spectrometry (NIMS) is a surface-based mass … [Read more...] about Increased Specificity and Sensitivity to Detect Targeted Metabolites using NIMS 2017-051
ANIcalculator (Average Nucleotide Identity Calculator) 2014-127
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Genome sequencing ABSTRACT: Increased sequencing of microbial genomes has revealed that prevailing prokaryotic species assignments can be inconsistent with whole genome information for a significant number of species. The long-standing need for a systematic and scalable species assignment technique can be met by the genome-wide Average … [Read more...] about ANIcalculator (Average Nucleotide Identity Calculator) 2014-127