Aging may be inevitable—but it doesn’t always happen at a steady pace. Research shows that our cells tend to age in spurts, ...

Laboratory could improve crop resilience In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized ...

A new concept of kinetic modules in biochemical networks could revolutionize the understanding of how these networks function ...

A new concept of kinetic modules in biochemical networks could revolutionize the understanding of how these networks function. Scientists succeeded in linking the structure and dynamics of biochemical ...

Lettuce plants could benefit from acetate—but ... an open mind about how any efforts to redesign a fundamental biological process like photosynthesis could be applied, in space or on Earth ...

While auras may come from the realm of pseudoscience, all living beings do emit a faint light, invisible to the human eye—one that is extinguished upon death. This is the conclusion of a team of ...

Chinese researchers have developed a groundbreaking technology that sheds light on how the three-dimensional (3D) organization of plant genomes ...

Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the ...

Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.