About 75 percent of the world's food comes from 12 plants. Scientists estimate up to 30,000 species are edible. Not only does this bottleneck ...

Genetic changes that can increase the yield of one crop don’t necessarily work for others, even if they’re close relatives.

By sequencing the genome of 22 different species within the genus Solanum, which includes vital crops like potatoes, tomatoes, and aubergines, researchers have developed a pan-genome, an advanced ...

About 75 percent of the world's food comes from 12 plants. Scientists estimate up to 30,000 species are edible. Not only does ...

Creation of a comprehensive genetic representation for more than 2.5 billion people across the Middle East and South Asia could make a major contribution towards advancing precision medicine, a ...

University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The ...

This month's cover highlights the article Nup358 restricts ER-mitochondria connectivity by modulating mTORC2/Akt/GSK3β signalling by Joseph, Misha Kalarikkal and colleagues. The image shows a human ...

Why retinoic acid is effective in this setting but not against primary tumors, has been speculated about for nearly 50 years. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists resolved the mystery, ...

The Income Tax Department (ITD) is upgrading the existing PAN card systems in India through a new e-governance project called PAN 2.0. This initiative will improve the taxpayer experience by ...

(Reprinted with permission, Nature, 429:92–6, 2004). Most people like their predictions to pan out, but Markus Covert is glad when his fail. That's because he has developed a genome-scale mathematical ...

Pan multi-omic analysis sheds light on the core ... present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmark ...