"Ballistic seed dispersal" is not something you see often in plants – and for good reason, perhaps, when you see just what the affectionately called squirting cucumber is capable of. Shunning external ...

Until these issues are resolved, the status of conservation biology as a predictive science will remain in serious doubt (Soulé 1986). Given the imperfect nature of the analytical tools integral ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have determined the full-length structure of a blood pressure-regulating hormone receptor ...

New advances allow scientists to study DNA, RNA, and gene activity in individual cells rather than in bulk tissue samples.

In molecular biology and biochemistry, the questions have always been more of a qualitative nature, such as, have we cloned the relevant gene or not? Is it present and active? In which cells?

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