January 23, 2016

Powerful machine-learning technique uncovers unknown features of important bacterial pathogen

A powerful new machine-learning technique can be applied to large datasets in the biological sciences to uncover previously unknown features of organisms and their genes, according […]
January 23, 2016
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Can a quirky chromosome create a second human species?

In this age of genome sequencing, we can lose sight of the importance of how our genomes are distributed over 23 pairs of chromosomes. Rearrangements of […]
January 15, 2016

Scientists discover a drought tolerance gene that may help plants fight against global warming

(upper panel) Arabidopsis under normal condition is shown; growth of control plant (left) the same as plants (middle and right) with increased ACBP2 protein. (lower panel) […]