The northern white rhinoceros is one of the rarest animals on Earth, with just two females left and no natural way for the ...

Americans' fixation on protein is reaching a fever pitch with new high-protein products constantly hitting the shelves. But ...

Indigenous Nigerian food plants show promise in fighting cancer by targeting cell death and inflammation, offering support ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

A new study combining satellite imagery with genetic analysis reveals that climate and land use changes are driving increased ...

Many plants, and a few other organisms, can expedite diversification even further by doubling their number of chromosomes. This process is called autopolyploidy, and under the right conditions, it can ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to determine which genes collectively govern nitrogen use efficiency in plants such as corn, with the goal of helping farmers improve their crop yields and ...

About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring amino—the same kind that astronomers have found in meteorites ...

RNA acts as a messenger inside cells, carrying instructions from DNA that are translated into proteins that are essential for ...

A new agtech company focused on enhancing gene editing for plants has launched in St. Louis, the Danforth Technology Company ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...