For the past seven years, University of California Cooperative Extension vegetable farm adviser Zheng Wang has studied ...

Using parts from a pet store and hardware shop, a medical student built a system that could one day replace organ transplants ...

Here are 26 common outdoor survival myths that are retold so often, you might already believe them. Cavemen didn't know any ...

Decaying matter shapes life in soil, but it can also create hostile zones for growing roots. Professor Jiří Friml of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and international ...

Decaying matter shapes life in soil, but it can also create hostile zones for growing roots. Professor Jiří Friml of the ...

Sometimes, I dream that I am in forests where terrorists, bandits and kidnappers live with their captives…children, expectant and young women, young and old men, healthy or infirm. Unafraid that I may ...

Knights of science have long chased a biologic holy grail: transforming a soup of raw chemicals into self-sustaining life. Now, a team led by synthetic biologist Kate Adamala, of the University of ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel cells critical to retinal health for the first time. When injected into mouse ...

Efficient genome editing without the need for transgenesis or tissue culture remains a major challenge in crop breeding. Here, we establish a simple single-step system for transgene- and tissue ...

This is a confocal section of an embryo where in one half (right; cells with cyan nuclei), adhesion is decreased by using an optogenetic tool. The left half is epithelialised with tricellular contacts ...

Using their new "confined culture system" (CCS), the team grew small intestine, colon, and stomach organoids from tiny spherical forms into centimeter-scale tubular forms nearly 10 times larger than ...

ZZ plants (Zamioculcas zamiifolia) are among the most low-maintenance houseplants you can grow. And because it is so easy to care for, you'll likely want more—for your own collection or share ZZ ...