Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now ...

Students in biology teacher Amy Jones' Ascension Catholic High class learned about plants and self-pollination by dissecting ...

A group of Canadian undergrads is using plants to revolutionize medicine. Faced with soaring drug prices and global shortages ...

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The life of a plant scientist involves long hours in the lab, thinking up, designing, and monitoring experiments that might ...

At different times of the day, different flowers open up for light and pollination.

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Since Darwin's time, the phenomenon known as flower constancy -- i.e., where insects consistently visit the same flower type even when many others are also present -- has been understood as a passive ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first-ever method of detecting ribonucleic acid, or RNA, ...

Clara Lacy's 'The World Has Dropped Its Petals' is a series of elaborately detailed drawings illuminating the world of ...

Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with ...