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Scientists on the verge of understanding how climate adaptation happens in plants

A century after scientists first noted that the environment contributes to the evolution of adaptive differences among plant populations, scientists are on the verge of figuring out how that adaptation happens -; by combining results from huge "common garden" experiments with genomic sequencing.

From Penn State University 9 Feb 2022

Paving the Way for a New Lab-Grown Meat

In this interview, we speak to Professor Kelly Schultz and colleagues about their latest research that has led to the development of a new lab-grown meat.

From Lehigh University 18 Jan 2022

New gene determines whether ultraviolet iridescence shows up in butterfly wings

A team of researchers at the George Washington University has identified a gene that determines whether ultraviolet iridescence shows up in the wings of butterflies.

11 Jan 2022

Experts identify subgenome asymmetry at translational level in wheat

Polyploidy is a key route for the creation of new species in plants and a significant means of enhancing agronomic traits in crops.

9 Dec 2021

Announcing the Winners of The Scientist’s Top 10 Innovations of 2021

Each year The Scientist seeks to highlight the latest and greatest tools, technologies, and techniques to hit the life science landscape.

From Resolve Biosciences 6 Dec 2021

Bacterial-fungal interactions are far more common and diverse than previously known

In a novel, broad assessment of bacterial-fungal interactions, researchers using unique bioinformatics found that fungi host a remarkable diversity of bacteria, making bacterial-fungal interactions far more common and diverse than previously known.

20 Oct 2021

New universal toolkit for phylogenomic research on flowering plants

How do you study a group of organisms with over 300,000 species, dispersed across all seven continents, and with up to 50 times as much DNA content as the human genome?

27 Jul 2021

Wild relatives of modern peanut plants can withstand diseases

The wild relatives of modern peanut plants have the ability to withstand disease in ways that peanut plants can't. The genetic diversity of these wild relatives means that they can shrug off the diseases that kill farmers' peanut crops, but they also produce tiny nuts that are difficult to harvest because they burrow deep in the soil.

From University of Georgia 19 May 2021

São Tomé island has two different species of caecilians, shows new study

The Gulf of Guinea islands harbor an abundance of species found nowhere else on Earth. But for over 100 years, scientists have wondered whether or not a population of limbless, burrowing amphibians--known as caecilians--found on one of the islands is a single or multiple species.

11 May 2021

Grasses steal genetic secrets from other species to speed up evolution

According to a new study, grass crops can bend the laws of evolution by borrowing genes from their neighboring species, thus gaining a competitive benefit.

26 Apr 2021

New algorithm maps gene expression patterns into specific locations

Cell-type databases are increasing in size and complexity as researchers accumulate a great deal of gene-sequencing data.

21 Apr 2021

New highly sensitive RNA detection method advances in situ transcriptomics

Human cells typically transcribe half of their roughly 20,000 genes into RNA molecules at any given time. Just like with proteins, the function of those RNA species not only relies on their abundance but also their precise localization within the 3D space of each cell.

18 Mar 2021

Hybridization News and Research

Scientists on the verge of understanding how climate adaptation happens in plants

Paving the Way for a New Lab-Grown Meat

New gene determines whether ultraviolet iridescence shows up in butterfly wings

Experts identify subgenome asymmetry at translational level in wheat

Announcing the Winners of The Scientist’s Top 10 Innovations of 2021

Bacterial-fungal interactions are far more common and diverse than previously known

New universal toolkit for phylogenomic research on flowering plants

Wild relatives of modern peanut plants can withstand diseases

São Tomé island has two different species of caecilians, shows new study

Grasses steal genetic secrets from other species to speed up evolution

New algorithm maps gene expression patterns into specific locations

New highly sensitive RNA detection method advances in situ transcriptomics

Fungal hybridization confers greater adaptive potential in Verticillium longisporum

Novel amplification-free rapid SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid detection platform based on HC-FIA

Researchers determine 3D structures of RNA hybridization with artificial nucleic acids

Multiple genomes reveal the diversity and adaptability of wheat

Scientists sequence full genome of ornamental variety of miscanthus

Bioengineers detect the presence of maxRNA on the surface of human cells

New technology helps visualize entire genome at molecular resolution

Study develops high-resolution maps of microbial communities on the human tongue

The Exclusome, A New Mammalian "Containter"

Breaking Down the Onso System: PacBio's Genomic Advancement

The Last Piece of Our Genome: Sequencing the Y Chromosome

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