"Phosphorus is essential to all forms of life," said Northwestern's Ludmilla Aristilde, who led the study. "The backbone of ...

A new study overturns assumptions about how phosphorus becomes available in soils and sediments for plant growth.

Scientists have uncovered that iron oxides, previously thought to trap phosphorus, actually help convert it into a ...

Kokoris came up with the idea of solving some of the noise issue of nanopore sequencing by converting DNA into larger ...

DNA is negatively charged, due to the phosphate groups in its phosphate-sugar backbone, so histones bind with DNA very tightly. The basic repeating structural (and functional) unit of chromatin is ...

Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat & Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India ...

Why archaeologists are increasingly leaving historic sites untouched until we have less destructive technologies for studying ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on river Seine, the storied French waterway that was once nearly biologically dead but is not ...

A team of scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered how a powerful "weapon" used by many fungal pathogens enables them ...