By applying an algorithm akin to what Facebook uses to make friend suggestions, researchers have identified communities of ancient life...
The ability of rice plants to modify their root systems to adapt to the surrounding soil water conditions is a...
An international research team has shown that parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction, negatively affects the genome evolution of the...
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have discovered how benign strains of Pseudomonas protect against their harmful...
For many diseases, the tools of medicine are reaching their limits. CRISPR technologies open new avenues for diagnostics and therapies,...
A forest pest that bedevils Maine residents and tourists with hairs that cause an itchy rash appears to be spreading...
Queensland Museum scientists have re-described a species of bright blue octocorals that can only be found on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast....
The structure of the protective armor of superbug C. difficile has been revealed for the first time, showing the close-knit...
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently announced in the journal Current Biology that...
Malaria remains one of the biggest global public health challenges. It kills a young child every two minutes, more than...
A new University of Michigan study has found that higher levels of biodiversity—the enormous variety of life on Earth and...
Researchers from Finland used genetic methods to pinpoint how a fishery for an aquaculture fish food source and changes in...
