WashU biologists, led by Xuehua Zhong in Arts & Sciences, investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

A flowering plant might not be able to tell how many fingers you’re holding up, but it can tell whether it’s light or dark ...

Explore how plants compete for light, with new insights on cytokinin's role in shade avoidance from Wageningen University ...

In a world first that challenges what we thought we knew about biology, scientists have successfully engineered animal cells ...

Wilting flowers may not mean poor plant health; instead, they could be part of a smart resource-saving strategy. A study from ...

Healthy soil, the foundation of thriving ecosystems, is a complex dance between physical, chemical, and biological processes ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...

Protein engineering is a powerful biotechnological process that focuses on creating new enzymes or proteins and improving the functions of existing ones by manipulating their natural macromolecular ...

The Pacific Recycling Foundation and The Fertile Factory & Company Limited are now working in collaboration on a potential ...

Napoca, Romania, have discovered a plant that has been living for over 60,000 years in the Carpathians, making it one of the ...

Parents are encouraged to take their children to the beach regularly this summer, after new research found kids who play in ...