By Shelly Leachman Lauded for its health benefits and adored as a topping for toast, the humble avocado is a certified A-lister of the produce world. It’s also a powerful economic engine: avocado ...

An animal geneticist told Kansas cattle producers recently that a gene editing technique is a safe option for shortening the ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species—including plants, fungi, and even humans—are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called "selfish ...

Russia launched a deadly missile assault on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown Wednesday — just hours after Kyiv agreed to a US-proposed cease-fire with Moscow. The overnight attack on ...

An international team of scientists from Australia and China has unveiled the first chromosome-scale genome of a wild barley ...

Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in ...

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