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New technique allows plant breeders to introduce crop traits without access to full genome of crops
A new technique will allow plant breeders to introduce valuable crop traits even without access to the full genome sequence ...
Tel Aviv University researcher says plants can see, smell, feel, and taste
In his new book What a Plant Knows (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and his articles in Scientific American, Prof. Daniel ...
New book on ‘Darwinian Agriculture’ explains how evolution can improve agriculture
The largest drought in 50 years has severely damaged much of the nation's "corn belt" and is threatening the viability ...
Enzyme’s ability to ‘hop’ as it moves along DNA offers tips on epigenetic gene expression
UC Santa Barbara researchers' discovery of a variation of an enzyme's ability to "hop" as it moves along DNA, modifying ...
Researchers identify mechanisms that allow embryonic stem cells to become any cell in the body
New research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on pluripotency—the ability of embryonic stem cells to renew themselves ...
Salt-tolerant chickpea project to boost crop production
Researchers at The University of Western Australia, in collaboration with research partners overseas, have identified which lines of chickpea grow ...
Seeking a splice for better rice
A research team led by Kazuki Saito and Fumio Matsuda of the RIKEN Plant Science Center in Yokohama has begun ...
Bacterial gene ‘therapy’ to combat cholera
Cholera is an extremely virulent intestinal infection caused by ingestion of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae). EU researchers elucidated ...
Amniotic fluid yields alternatives to embryonic stem cells
Stem cells found in amniotic fluid can be transformed into a more versatile state similar to embryonic stem cells, according ...
Stem cell transplantation into mouse cochlea may impact future hearing loss therapies
Researchers in Japan who evaluated the risks and efficacy of transplanting two varieties of stem cells into mouse cochlea have ...
Prairie cordgrass: Potential for energy crop
When D.K. Lee and Lane Rayburn, faculty members in the crop sciences department at the University of Illinois, talk about ...
Keeping the green in putting greens
An ARS researcher has developed a tool to more accurately identify non-uniform plants that can adversely affect the appearance and ...
European researchers crack embryonic stem cells mystery
In their groundbreaking study, a European team of researchers evaluated embryonic stem cells grown in a pure undifferentiated state. The ...
Scientists map and sequence genome of switchgrass relative foxtail millet
A newly published genetic sequence and map of foxtail millet, a close relative of switchgrass and an important food crop ...
Researchers find a way to delay aging of stem cells
Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have uncovered a series of biological events that implicate the stem ...
How environmental effects regulate genes
Swiss researchers provide evidence that a protein in the cell nucleus responds to environmental stimuli like a kind of sensor, ...
Mechanical properties of stem cells can foretell what they will become
To become better healers, tissue engineering need a timely and reliable way to obtain enough raw materials: cells that either ...
Central nervous system stem cells shed light on mechanism that controls cell division
Animals consist of many distinct cell types, all of which originate during development from a single cell: the fertilized egg ...
New technique reveals unseen information in DNA code
Two modifications of cytosine, one of the four bases that make up DNA, look almost the same but mean different ...
Seeing color traced back to genetic mutations
Why do we see the colors we do? Some of it goes back to the types of color-absorbing pigments that ...
Green fuel is possible with artificial ecosystems
Algae could become an important source of sustainable biofuel, as production doesn't compete with food crops for land. But we ...
Octopus genes may foretell climate rise problems
Now, genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus reveals that this may have happened at some point in the not-too-distant past ...
Enzyme corrects more than one million faults in DNA replication
Scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) at the University of Edinburgh have ...
Study reveals dynamic changes in gene regulation in human stem cells
Last year, this team reported recurrent changes in the genomes of human pluripotent stem cells as they are expanded in ...
