Initial choices about fertilization and grass seeding could have a long-lasting effect on how plants and their associated microbes break...
Researchers have developed a “homing gene drive system” based on CRISPR/Cas9 that could be used to suppress populations of Drosophila...
New insight into how xeroderma pigmentosum causative gene products ensure the accuracy of DNA repair
Our genomic DNA is continuously damaged by endogenous factors such as reactive oxygen species, and also by environmental factors such...
Genetic variation is the ultimate fuel for evolution, says Utah State University evolutionary geneticist Zachariah Gompert. But, over centuries, that...
Researchers led by Chen Yuhang and Zhou Jianmin from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy...
Ponderosa pine trees are one of the most ubiquitous conifer species in western North America, extending from southern British Columbia...
A human or animal’s microbiome—the collection of often beneficial microorganisms, including as bacteria and fungi, that live on or within...
A UCL-led research team has opened and closed the blood-nerve barrier for the first time and used it to deliver...
A new paper focuses on the size and abundance of living and non-living large African mammals. With the use of...
Unmanned ground vehicles can be used to identify and eliminate the breeding sources of mosquitos that carry dengue fever in...
A UCF research team has engineered tissue with human cells that mosquitoes love to bite and feed upon—with the goal...
The presence of more native Australian flowering plants in urban areas can help boost declining bee numbers, with new Curtin...
