A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during ...

Salvinia molesta can double its biomass in 36 hours. It spreads across ponds, lakes and slow-moving waterways in a smothering ...

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

Synonymous DNA substitutions have often been viewed as quiet changes because they do not alter the amino acid sequence of a ...

Deep within tropical forests, sloths move at a pace that seems almost frozen in time. Their slow movements, low energy use, ...

Greek oregano is valued worldwide for its strong aroma, culinary appeal, and essential oil (EO) rich in bioactive terpenoids ...

Researchers have created a new way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of complex plant genomes by analyzing genetic traces left by transposable elements. The technique revealed that modern ...

In all, the megacluster provides a sophisticated siege on an essential pathway in many bacteria, including Streptomyces’ foes ...

(Erik Karits/Unsplash) Cockroaches tend to be thought of as the creatures that keep on living through anything, in part due ...

It’s easy to see why horizontal gene transfer would be common among microbes. They often live in complex communities that are ...