"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.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

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 surrogate polymers, and he cofounded sequencing company Stratos Genomics back in ...

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 ...

Fermented dairy products and probiotics may support bone health by enhancing calcium absorption, modulating inflammation, and ...

The DNA sequence is represented in the X-NTP sequence. The four X-NTP types have a tether that is linked between the base and the alpha phosphate. In the process, the DNA template is degraded and ...

The EU has recently approved the use of glyphosate for another decade. Bárbara Pinho examines the controversial pesticide's ...

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