Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and elsewhere have decoded the genome of the platyfish, a cousin of the guppy and a popular choice for home aquariums. Among scientists, ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

While pearl millet is a major food staple in some of the fastest growing regions on Earth, relatively little is known about the drought-hardy grain.

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 29, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Scientists are closing in on the capacity to clone extinct species using biotechnology and DNA samples from the ancient past, a process that is called "de-extinction." The prospect of bringing back extinct ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 25, 2013 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

If we are to sustain fish as a global food source, then fisheries and conservation managers need to take account of new evidence showing how overfishing of the larger fish in a population actually changes the gene pool in ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 18, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Forget blurry pictures and casts of big foot-prints. A Texas veterinarian, Dr Melba Ketchum, and her collaborators have published an article, in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, proving the existence of Bigfoot. ...

Other Sciences - Other

Feb 22, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 5

A team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has successfully demonstrated what it describes as a "simple hypothesis" for making significant increases in yields for the maize plant.

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 03, 2013 3 / 5 (4) 8 |

(Phys.org)—Geneticist Theo Sanderson has written a simple text editor that allows a writer to use only words from a list of the 1000 ("ten hundred" since "thousand" isn't on the list) most commonly used ...

Other Sciences - Other

Feb 01, 2013 2.9 / 5 (9) 27 |

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the "big three" globally important crops, accounting for 20% of the calories consumed by people. Fully 35% of the world's 7 billion people depend on this staple crop f ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Nov 28, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

It is time to put the nature versus nurture debate to rest and embrace growing evidence that it is the interaction between biology and environment in early life that influences human development, according ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 25, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Potatoes with higher levels of beneficial carotenoids are the result of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies to improve one of America's most popular vegetables.

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 24, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

A new, comprehensive review of humans' anthropological and genetic records gives the most up-to-date story of the "Out of Africa" expansion that occurred about 45,000 to 60,000 years ago.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 22, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 1 |

(Phys.org)—It took mankind millennia of painstaking trial and error to breed hardier, healthier food crops.

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 20, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—A new multidisciplinary study on the enigmatic large Horseshoe bat – found widespread throughout South and East Africa – has revealed that instead of just one species as previously believed, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 14, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

As a plant geneticist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service, Mark K. Ehlenfeldt has either developed, or helped develop, a dozen new varieties of blueberries, including "Pink Lemonade." Although not a first of its kind, ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 13, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—A gene that keeps switchgrass forever young could have far-reaching implications for the development of the plant as a biofuel crop, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 07, 2012 not rated yet 0