Cassava is a lifeline for millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa, but it is an imperfect lifeline. The starchy roots...

For decades, doctors have measured a thin pocket of fluid at the back of the fetal neck during routine first-trimester...

Every night, as sunlight fades and photosynthesis grinds to a halt, plants quietly reconfigure their metabolic machinery, shifting resources toward...

Gastric cancer remains one of the world's most lethal malignancies, and predicting which patients will survive has long depended on...

In the mist-draped rainforests of Grenada, researchers have quietly achieved something that until recently would have demanded a killing jar,...

A genus-wide survey of chloroplast genomes in Asparagus, the plant group that includes the edible garden asparagus and numerous medicinal...

Some of the most important genomes of our time are not stored in freezers or sequencing centers, but in the...

For years, the promise of precisely writing new DNA into the genome has been constrained by an awkward trade-off: the...

Viruses have long been cast as the ultimate freeloaders of the living world: stripped-down genetic packages that depend on host...

Meningiomas, the most common primary brain tumors in adults, have long presented clinicians with a deceptively simple problem: some grow...