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Scientists have engineered bacteria to make a key ingredient of plastics and a carotenoid used in pharmaceuticals simultaneously, from an underutilized plant fiber.

A new technique to clone and reassemble DNA, dubbed CReATiNG, could simplify and lower the cost of making synthetic chromosomes. Potential applications are numerous, including pharmaceutical production, biofuel generation, and cancer therapies.

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a stealth molecular weapon that plants use to attack the cells of invading gray mold.

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.

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.

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.

Chemical signals from host plants, determined by their genetics, regulate which microorganisms are allowed into their root microbiomes.

Researchers report that local rivers and streams were the source of the Salmonella enterica contamination along coastal North Carolina after Hurricane Florence in 2018 – not the previously suspected high number of pig farms in the region.

Researchers published an atlas of zebrafish development, detailing the gene expression programs that are activated within nearly every cell type during the first five days of development.