Scientists have identified a genetic switch that determines whether avocado trees flower as A-type or B-type—an advance that could compress...

Rice researchers have long debated whether genetic engineering has actually delivered the promised gains in yield and resilience. A new...

Salt stress is rapidly eroding crop productivity worldwide, and medicinal plants are not spared. For Salvia miltiorrhiza, salinization threatens both...

Children born with NAXD deficiency—a genetic disorder that can be rapidly fatal—may have a better future with early, high-dose vitamin...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry reports an integrated map of how animals adapt to chronic high-altitude stress in...

A team of researchers has unveiled a sequencing-free, amplification-free strategy for mapping gene regulation directly in space, tackling key bottlenecks...

In fully autonomous apomixis, plants can generate clonal seeds without fertilization, a strategy that could stabilize hybrid vigour in crop...

A genetic deep-dive into fibromyalgia—now published in Nature Medicine—has uncovered risk factors in the largest dataset of its kind. The...

Antibiotic resistance is evolving faster than many treatment pipelines can keep up with, largely because bacteria can acquire survival traits...

Columbia University’s new Prospective Genetic Risk Evaluation and Assessment (PROGRESS) effort aims to change how genetic risk is handled for...