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Barley yellow mosaic virus disease negatively affects barley crops in Japan. Although genes that confer viral disease resistance are useful for breeding improved barley cultivars, they reduce the cultivars’ genetic diversity.

Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago.

A study based on field and greenhouse experiments at the University of Kansas shows how a boost in agricultural yield comes from planting diverse crops rather than just one plant species: Soil pathogens harmful to plants have a harder time thriving.

New research has shown how tau proteins damage the essential operating instructions for our brain cells, leading to Alzheimer's disease.

The kinship between species is not the only factor that influences our ability to decode the language of primates.

Mapping the genomes of wild North American grapes could accelerate grape breeding efforts, tackling challenges like climate change, drought and saline environments.

Anxiety disorders have a genetic basis as seen from inheritance in families, and people with one subtype of AD tend to have another subtype, suggesting a shared genetic basis.

A light-stimulated molecular jackhammer can vibrate and destroy cancer cells by rupturing the cells’ membrane, illustrates new research on melanoma cells.

Human organ chip research shows that a common antimalarial combination could reverse the negative effects of malnutrition in the female digestive tract that lead to low birth weight infants.

Scientists have discovered that a man who lived between AD 126-228 during the Roman period did not originally come from a rural farmstead near where he was buried, but likely thousands of miles away, possibly outside of the Roman Empire.