The viability of lab grown meat has been debated for years. The basis of lab-grown meat is cultivating meat from an animal stem cell. How much meat do we eat globally? Can the future be brighter for ...

Chinese researchers recently uncovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism—a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...

Associate professor Margaret Worthington supervised the project to identify the genetic pinpoints that could pave the way for breeders to speed up development of thornless varieties of blackberries.

Dogs shouldn't be bred in inhumane facilities and used for painful experiments when there are numerous and more effective non ...

The decision-making process in plant breeding is driven by data. The machine learning framework has powerful tools that can extract useful information from data. However, there is still a lack of ...

In a recent study published in the Plant Biotechnology Journal, researchers showed that some spinach defensins can confer similar protection to citrus and potatoes -- and possibly other crops.

Plant architecture, the three-dimensional structural feature formed during morphogenesis, has a profound effect on crop yield and thus serves as a core element in high-yield breeding. However ...