Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world’s population, but most farmers don’t grow high-yielding varieties...
Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of Yale paleontologists...
Research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution introduces a novel method for inferring DNA methylation patterns in non-skeletal tissues from...
Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers...
Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA—that molecular blueprint for life—over 70 years ago. Today,...
Microfluidic technology has become increasingly important in many scientific fields, such as regenerative medicine, microelectronics, and environmental science. However, conventional...
Genes aren’t the sole driver instructing cells to build multicellular structures, tissues, and organs. In a paper published in Nature...
The throat of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans might seem like an odd place for exploring the complexity of life’s mechanisms,...
Scientists have identified many types of bacteria in the mouth, but many problems remain in understanding how they work with...
Early development of an embryo is solely supported by maternally deposited RNAs and proteins until its own genome is activated...
The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer...
Selenoproteins are crucial for several biological functions, including the breakdown of harmful substances, immune system support, and regulating metabolic processes....
