Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions. Yet breeding improved varieties—plants that are more resilient, produce ...

Despite the vivid details, no solid evidence has ever confirmed that the so-called "baby ranch" scheme at Zorro Ranch was ...

Faced with a life-threatening metabolic disease, KJ’s doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sprinted to create a ...

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for regenerative medicine – which is aimed at repairing the body by developing ...

Inside USD -- The English alphabet has 26 letters, but until recently the genetic alphabet had four — adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T). However, Tammy Dwyer, USD professor of ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

Your genetic code is not as logical as it could be. What if we could rewrite our genetic code, and make it more efficient, sensical and organized? Join Hank and dive deep into genetics in this fun ...

Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unlocked the most detailed genetic blueprint yet of a major soil-borne crop pathogen—an advance that paves the way for better crop ...

Department of Foreign Relations and Diplomacy, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia The problem of transmitting an interstellar message from one communicative civilization to another is examined ...

Brenna Henn had a long-term grant to study the genetic diversity of Africans and people of African descent. Then her N.I.H. funding was cut. Credit...Andri Tambunan for The New York Times Supported by ...