U of L students, Lanna Petterson and Francisco Gomez Jimenez, were in Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico when the earthquake struck. Less than two weeks later, Hurricane Maria tore through Gomez Jimenez' homeland of Puerto Rico.
This year's high school iGEM team has chosen a project that uses synthetic biology to create pigments for ink, a process that may one day reduce the costs of printer ink and mitigate environmental consequences
Dr. Dan Johnson and his team have found potato psyllids in Canadian potato fields but so far none of them have the bacteria that causes zebra chip disease