In the steep, rain-fed hills of northern India, a humble legume has sustained farming families for centuries, thriving where other...

Every day, laboratories and clinics around the world generate genetic sequences in which a single letter of the DNA code...

The giant kidney worm, a parasitic nematode that can grow to more than a meter in length and destroys the...

Researchers in China have identified two chitinase genes that act as central guardians of walnut leaves against a destructive fungal...

Microplastics have long been framed as one of the defining pollution problems of the modern era, a ubiquitous haze of...

A quiet revolution is taking root along Ireland's riverbanks, and it is being written in DNA. Common alder, Alnus glutinosa,...

Vitamin D, one of the most extensively studied micronutrients in human medicine, has long been associated with bone health, immune...

Variants in a single "master switch" gene called NR5A1 have long been known to disrupt male sexual development, but why...

In a discovery that offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of sex chromosomes caught in the act of being...

In the largest genetic investigation of its kind to date, an international team of researchers has mapped the genetic architecture...