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The research is among the first to find the connection in humans.

Research organizations and universities have typically faced burdensome paperwork to convince funders their money would not be wasted.

The same network of transcription factors may be responsible for both cleft palate and neural tube defects, according to a new study connecting mouse and human data.

All the while, staff members are meeting daily to prepare for another possible pause in operations come mid-month.

Researchers find that it’s not just high-risk genes, but how children’s bodies respond to their own intestinal microbiota that relates to future diagnoses of type 1 diabetes.

This University of California, Davis, botanist studies the genes that regulate plant anatomy.

Small RNA-containing particles in ginger root are found to promote the growth of beneficial bacteria and alleviate colitis in mouse guts.

Researchers develop an app that can estimate the biological age of a rodent from its mug shot—and could give a boost to the science of human aging in the process.

With genetic tweaks, researchers can coax corn and other cereals to take in more iron, but sometimes the plants rebel.

In plants ranging from liverworts to wheat, parasitic water molds build intracellular structures analogous to the nutrient-exchanging structures of symbiotic fungi.

Pathogens appear to steal the metal from plants using the erratic motion of microscopic particles.

Internalizing the environment might be the next step in humans’ relationship with our planet.