Can neuroimaging reveal the roots of psychiatric disorders? Not just yet
New Haven, Conn. — Neuroimaging technology has been shown to hold great promise in helping clinicians link specific symptoms of ...
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Research reveals plant roots change shape and branch out for water
Researchers have discovered how plant roots adapt their shape to maximise their uptake of water, pausing branching when they lose contact ...
Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions
The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the ...
Synthetic genetic circuits reprogram plant roots
Controlling the activity of genes is an important step in engineering plants for improved bioenergy crops. This research developed synthetic ...
What keeps plant roots growing toward gravity? Study identifies four genes
URBANA, Ill. – What happens belowground in a corn field is easy to overlook, but corn root architecture can play ...
UBC Okanagan team examines the roots of great wine tourism
Establishing a sense of place—letting visitors dig right into the soil and smell the earth where the grapes are grown ...
The roots of biodiversity: how proteins differ across species
New Haven, Conn. — To better understand what drives biological diversity on Earth, scientists have historically looked at genetic differences ...
Prehistoric roots of ‘cold sore’ virus traced through ancient herpes DNA
Ancient genomes from the herpes virus that commonly causes lip sores – and currently infects some 3.7 billion people globally ...
Designing roots to reach new depths could help carbon storage in soil
Scientists have discovered how to potentially design root systems to grow deeper by altering their angle growth to be steeper ...
Straightening out kinky roots captures carbon and avoids drought stress
Researchers have discovered a new gene in barley and wheat that controls the angle of root growth in soil, opening ...
Designing roots to penetrate hard soils could help climate proof crops
Scientists have discovered how to design cereal roots able to continue growing in hard soils by altering their ability to ...
The historical roots of a contemporary groundwater crisis
For well over a century the immense biodiversity of the lands that constitute Spain’s Doñana National Park has attracted the ...
DNA from ancient population in Southern China suggests Native Americans’ East Asian roots
For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. ...
Tracing a cancer’s family tree to its roots reveals how tumors grow
Over time, cancer cells can evolve to become resistant to treatment, more aggressive, and metastatic—capable of spreading to additional sites ...
Kudzu Roots and Soy Molasses may help treat three types of cancer especially kids’
Soy molasses and kudzu roots contain isoflavonoids with high antioxidant and cytotoxic activity, scientists have discovered. Substances can help fight ...
Salt marsh grass on Georgia’s coast gets nutrients for growth from helpful bacteria in its roots
Salt marshes cover much of the state of Georgia’s coast and perform key "ecosystem services” for people. They clean the ...
What lies beneath: Roots as drivers of South African landscape pattern
--EMBARGOED until FEB. 14 at 3 p.m EST-- Credit: Mingzhen Lu --EMBARGOED until FEB. 14 at 3 p.m EST-- We ...
Privacy’s evolutionary roots may help shape its future in the digital age
In a Policy Forum, Alessandro Acquisti and colleagues argue that the evolutionary roots of human privacy could teach a lesson ...
Untangling the roots of plant genomes: Supporting a “moonshot” for botany
Research featured this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights the progress of plant genomics and includes ...
Bioenergy sorghum’s roots can replenish carbon in soil
The world faces an increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and a shortage of carbon in the soil. ...