23+ hour, 52+ min ago   (858+ words) Every improvement in a crop, whether it is a heavier ear of wheat, a more disease-resistant rice plant, or a maize hybrid that endures drought, ultimately traces back to variation written into the genome....

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (801+ words) A sea-derived molecule best known as a potential anticancer agent may also shield the uterus from one of chemotherapy’s most underappreciated side effects....

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (55+ words) In the sprawling world of open-source software, developers rarely belong to just one team. A programmer contributing to a machine learning library may also maintain a build tool, review pull requests in a web framework, and drift between projects as…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (71+ words) Plant breeders may be able to test far more crop varieties without sacrificing the accuracy of genomic predictions, according to a large simulation study spanning maize, sunflower and oat. The research found that partially replicated field designs—plots in which…...

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2+ week, 3+ day ago   (878+ words) Crop wild relatives may hold the genetic tools needed to help agriculture withstand drought, heat, salinity, emerging diseases and increasingly unstable growing conditions. Yet the same evolutionary distance that preserved these valuable traits often prevents breeders from moving them into…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (706+ words) germ cell fate Bioengineer.org...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (582+ words) Crohn’s disease is often described as an immune disorder, but a new study suggests that the cells forming the body’s connective-tissue framework may be just as important in determining where inflammation becomes chronic....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (661+ words) evolutionary success Bioengineer.org...