Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

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PARIS -- Four suspects in the Louvre heist have been handed preliminary charges and incarcerated, including three believed to ...

The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

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A 45,000-year-old Neanderthal bone found in Crimea shows ancient humans traveled thousands of miles, linking Europe and ...

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Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual ... we could unlock how cells and organisms fundamentally work. Now, research from Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman ...

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A photo collage of Carroll County Sheriff Daniel Klatt and the Othram website Credit: Matt Campbell A skull found last year might be one of the “several people” missing in the area, according to the ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...