Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Raffan and colleagues recently analyzed the genetic codes of 1,300 golden retrievers, and compared them to their behavioral ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

If you ask Northwestern Engineering’s Michael Jewett, he’ll tell you the potential of cell-free gene expression has always made sense. Rip off the wall of the cell, collect its insides, and teach the ...

Although much is known about the molecular components of cellular signaling pathways, very little is known about how these multicomponent biochemical machineries process complex extracellular signals ...

IN an age when the boundaries of science continue to expand rapidly, and even the general practitioner of a subject tends to ‘know more and more about less and less', such a conference as that on ...

Analysis of 135,000 participants reveals 11 genetic regions tied to delayed gratification and shows shared biology with ...