With several high-profile drugmakers already lining up for manufacturing space, Fujifilm Biotechnologies is on the cusp of ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world's population, its cultivation remains highly ...

Where others see a natural air purifier, Ralf Reski, a plant biotechnologist at the University of Freiburg, saw untapped potential in moss. In addition to the range of valuable compounds they produce ...

Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS, RDN Beans are a nutritious, convenient, versatile, and economical legume (a plant that ...

Spirulina is a nutrient-dense cyanobacterium rich in proteins, phycobiliproteins, carotenoids, and polyphenols that deliver ...

It is well-known that diet influences physical aging processes. Certain dietary habits are recognized for promoting healthy ...

Kim Baumann carried out her Ph.D. and postdoctoral research at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK. She first studied the molecular mechanisms underlying changes in plant cell shape in the ...

Plant researchers have speculated about the need for mechanisms to lock-down cell fate in late development. In PRC2 mutants, specialized, endoreplicated root hair cells differentiate normally but ...

Gabriella Ngang, of Farmington Hills, is one of three in Michigan to take part in a clinical trial of a new sickle cell ...