which reduce—but do not entirely eliminate—gene function. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the team successfully ...

A new computational biology pipeline has mapped out more than 13,000 groups of protein-coding genes conserved across grasses, ...

"Our study provides conclusive evidence for a new DNA marker in plants or animals with a very important function ... up perspectives for regulating gene expression without altering the underlying ...

With Matsumura, plant pathologist ... Turning on transposons will be useful to researchers exploring the function of genes, say the researchers. Rosmarinic acid to start With a plan to boost ...

but there may be variations in the way these genes are deployed. The Rb protein seems to function similarly in plants and animals to stop cell division and start differentiation in cells that ...

Plants have driven countless innovations ... "To our surprise, we were able to recover the ancestral function of this gene," Weng says. "We are trying to game the process that otherwise would ...

Two hundred years later, biology professor Manuel Ospina-Giraldo is still thinking about the Irish Potato Famine. Or, the ...

A recent study reveals how tea plants defend themselves against herbivores by activating specific genes. Researchers ...

Gene editing technologies have revolutionized the field of genetics, allowing researchers to make targeted changes to the DNA of various animal and plant nuclei, animal mitochondria, plant ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics.   Now 160 years on, an ...