Researchers have gained new insights into the genetic basis of rye reproduction. They have demonstrated how plants recombine ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

Motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), share physical ...

There are two typical paths to drug discovery. The first is serendipity — sometimes researchers simply get lucky and find compounds that happen to work. Although such fortunate accidents have led to ...

BYU plant and wildlife professors Rick Jellen and Jeff Maughan, together with an international consortium of researchers, ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including the ...

In a recent study, Dr. Oszkár Schütz and his colleagues analyzed 156 ancient genomes from the Sarmatian period, spanning the 1st to 5th centuries CE. The aim of the study was to clarify the origins ...

What could be possible if we learn to harness the computational powers of genome geometry and genetics? And what does this tell ... “The next step is to fully learn the engineering principles of the ...

Belgian Journal of Botany, Vol. 137, No. 2 (2004), pp. 163-174 (12 pages) In Western Europe and North America Echinochloa muricata (P. Beauv.) Fernald (native in North America) has long been confused ...