Underwater robots, combined with simple instruments from 100 years ago, are helping researchers unlock the secrets of ...
An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding how gene expression is controlled ...
New research adds to our understanding of the function of the human genome. An international team of researchers has made ...
The ensuing study, published in Nature Communications on October 26, 2024, reveals a delicate "Goldilocks" zone -- a specific magnesium concentration range -- where DNA wraps around polyP ...
Botanists often collect large numbers of plant samples. The samples are dried, pressed between pieces of cardboard, and then mounted on special paper and filed in herbaria. Herbaria are ...
Microplastics can go right through wastewater treatment plants, and researchers have engineered bacteria commonly found in there to break down this pollution before it can persist in the environment.
They applied the new method to more than 1,500 European genomes (a person's complete set of DNA) from people who lived primarily during the first millennium AD (year 1 to 1000), encompassing the ...