Scientists at Keele University have created the first detailed map of the genetic "switches" that control reproduction in disease-carrying insects such as Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species most ...

Watermelon is a quintessential summertime fruit, evoking images of warm, sunny afternoons and cookouts with friends and ...

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Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their research on genetic causes of sickle ...

Colossus' new redesign gives the X-Men's ultra-strong powerhouse a new set of powers and a new costume that Piotr Rasputin is ...

An engineered E. coli strain survived after one amino acid was designed out of many of its ribosomal proteins—an early test ...

Diagnostic Laboratory today announced the launch of long-read genomic sequencing, marking a significant advancement in ...

Basil downy mildew has impacted basil production worldwide for the past two decades since its re-emergence in Europe in 2001 ...

(spidroins) through long-read transcriptomics across a broad phylogenetic range, with theoretical implications for protein family evolution, biomaterials, and silk biology. By identifying putative ...

The asexually gene introduction by genetic engineering has brought enormous possibilities to innovate plant breeding. However, principally because of the low in vitro response, genetic transformation ...

A modified orange rootstock is the latest advance in fighting citrus greening disease, a Florida company told the federal agency. A Florida biotech company is asking the Agriculture Department to fast ...

Somewhere in Michigan, 10,000 silkworms are spinning the future of supermaterials. They labor in the thick air of a warm, humid warehouse, pulling a sticky white strand from a gland in their face and ...