Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions.

The traditional explanation of the initial genetic code in life seems less established when ancient proteins seem to be recalling some other arrangement of amino-acids. A recent examination of protein ...

Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions. Yet breeding improved ...

These are rare, special families of genes that duplicated themselves before our last common ancestor ever existed. Here is ...

Among them was David Liu, a biochemist at the Broad Institute and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Liu isn’t a ...

Researchers showed that in C. elegans, the protein MBD-2 regulates genes through repressive histone marks rather than DNA ...

DNA from 3,700-year-old bones in a mountain cave in Calabria reveals a family relationship so rare it stands out even in deep ...

Researchers at the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered how eukaryotic cells can ...

Inside the lab where scientists want to rewrite our DNA from scratch - Artificial biological intelligence could change ...

T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...

Scientists have pinpointed the exact genetic variant that transforms the beloved herb into a sudsy nightmare for 14% of the ...

Duplicated genes that appear in every branch of the tree of life can provide us with insight into the evolution that occurred ...