Resistance to disease should mean a longer life, but researchers have found that a mutant protein that helps a plant fight ...

Champion Iron Limited (TSX: CIA) (ASX: CIA) (OTCQX: CIAFF) ("Champion" or the "Company") reports its operational and ...

Are genetically modified (GM) plants the solution to achieving sustainable agriculture, clearing up pollution and eradicating ...

Chinese scientists have challenged over a century of Darwinian theory, demonstrating that acquired traits can influence ...

Chinese research team's investigation into cold-tolerant rice varieties revives largely-forgotten 19th century 'giraffe ...

However, results must be interpreted with great caution, since differences in satellite DNA may be quantitative (variation in copy number) or qualitative (variation in nucleotide sequence). Identical ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

A research team has revealed the molecular steps that led to the emergence of this plant-specific vacuolar transport system. Their work shows that the acquisition of this pathway was driven by the ...

It’s strawberry fields forever! Try counting these ‘achenes’ or seedsWhy does this Fibonacci sequence occur in plants?Scientists are figuring out whether this is an optimisation of resources.