A boom in vegetation at the end of the last ice age may have created so much pollen, it blocked mammoths' sense of smell. A new study suggests this drove the beasts to extinction, but not everyone ...
Recently, a group of Chinese scientists has added to our knowledge of the dispersion of early dairy fermentation practices, ...
The cheese was dug up with mummified human remains in the Xinjiang region of China and offers insights into the origins of ...
Researchers have discovered and analyzed DNA from the world's oldest cheese, found with the Tarim Basin mummies in China, ...
Food fermentation is the oldest production practice using microorganisms in human history. Milk fermentation, for example, ...
For the first time, scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim ...
In this edition of the biotech bi-weekly, a new partnership takes vascularized organoids to the international space station ...
New technology is making it easier to find the origins of trafficked wildlife and so they can be released back to the habitat they came from, instead of languishing for decades as sometimes happens.
The record-breaking crystal will act as a DNA time capsule that could be used to bring back humanity after our extinction, researchers say. But not everyone is convinced. For the first time, ...
The Stanford biophysicist thinks that understanding the mechanics of cell movement could allow scientists to manipulate immune cells.
Our immune system spans two worlds—innate and adaptive. Innate immune cells are like troops at the gate ready to hold off ...
In just two neutron experiments, scientists discovered remarkable details about the function of an enzyme that can aid drug ...