A protein that is involved in determining which enzymes cut or unwind DNA during the replication process has been identified in a new study.

When different varieties of one plant species are crossed with each other, their hybrid offspring are often more robust and ...

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have identified a new genetic marker that could play a role in the ...

Plant scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have been ...

At first, the ball dahlia that Hall was growing via a tuber appeared normal, with its petals pulling back to form that ...

Tending a garden is hard work. Imagine it from the plants' perspective. Each relies on fine-tuned genetic processes to pass ...

Archaeologists in Morocco have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old farming society, the oldest site of its kind ever discovered in Africa outside the Nile Valley. Thousands of stone ax ...

Fifty "exceptionally well-preserved" Viking skeletons have been unearthed in Denmark by archaeologists from the Museum Odense, west of Copenhagen, along with five cremated graves. "It is truly ...

Scientists have taken us on an incredible journey by extracting and analyzing DNA from the world’s oldest cheese samples, discovered alongside the ancient Tarim Basin mummies in Northwestern China. It ...

My daughter just started third grade. To see the kids on her class list, I got out her second-grade yearbook and discovered that someone (not her, she insists) crossed off the names of a bunch of ...

Scientists found a “slender” creature with “large” golden eyes in a cave of Saraburi Province and discovered a new species, a study said. Google Street View ...