1. This image combines an image taken with Hubble Space Telescope in the optical (taken in spring 2014) and observations of its auroras in the ultraviolet, taken in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Nichols (University of Leicester)
2. Juno spacecraft
3. Jupiter’s poles are covered in cyclones, some as big as the Earth

Astronomers publish predictions of planetary phenomena on Jupiter that informed spacecraft’s arrival. New observations about the extreme conditions of Jupiter’s weather and magnetic fields by University of Leicester astronomers have contributed to the revelations and insights coming from the first close passes of Jupiter by NASA’s Juno mission. Juno made its first scientific close-up, known as a ‘perijove’, on 27 August last year...

1. The SwRI-led Juno mission discovered that Jupiter’s signature bands disappear near its poles. This JunoCam image, processed by citizen scientist Bruce Lemons, show a chaotic scene of swirling storms up to the size of Mars against a bluish backdrop.
Credit Line: Image Courtesy of NASA/SwRI
2. The SwRI-led UVS spectrograph images Jupiter’s massive auroras. Collected during Juno’s third orbit around the gas giant, this false-color image is inset with an image of Earth’s south pole aurora, approximately to scale, collected September 11, 2005. The streaky colors away from the Jovian auroral region are associated with penetrating electrons.

King of the planets even more exotic than expected. NASA’s Juno mission, led by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr...

Peptides derived from Ov-GRN-1 (orthologue of granulin) are leads for wound healing therapeutics, as they are likely less immunogenic than the full-length protein and more convenient to produce.

A molecule produced by a Thai liver parasite could be the solution to those non-healing wounds. Globally, every 30 seconds a diabetic has a limb amputated due to a non-healing wound. Scientists from the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) are now able to produce a version of the molecule on a large enough scale to make it available for laboratory tests and eventually clinical trials. The molecule is granulin, one of a family of protein growth factors involved with cell proliferation.

“It’s produced by a parasitic liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini, which originally came to...

This is an artist’s impression of connected CRISPR-dCas9 NOR gates. Credit: University of Washington

Synthetic biology researchers have demonstrated a new method for digital information processing in living cells, analogous to the logic gates used in electric circuits. The circuits are the largest ever published to date in eurkaryotic cells and a key step in harnessing the potential of cells as living computers that can respond to disease, efficiently produce biofuels or develop plant-based chemicals.

Through billions of years of trial and error, evolution has arrived at a mode of information processing at the cellular level. In the microchips that run our computers, information processing capabilities reduce data to unambiguous 0s and 1s. In cells, it’s not that simple...