A food writer learns there may be a scientific reason behind his lifelong cucumber aversion. Even chefs and food writers can have strong aversions to certain foods. Cucumber aversion may have a ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new suite of statistical methods that dramatically improves the ability to pinpoint DNA changes responsible for important traits in ...

Wheat that can help make its own fertilizer is no longer a speculative idea from plant biology textbooks, it is a working ...