A newly identified bee species in Texas has a surprisingly narrow taste. It appears to rely almost entirely on one of the ...

The United States and Mexico have been in a historic megadrought since the turn of the century. For more than 25 years, the American Southwest has faced the severe social and economic consequences of ...

Michigan State University postdoctoral researcher Deepak Bhandari explores the molecular logistics of plant immunity and the role of the cell wall in pathogen resistance.

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

A new report highlights the innovative food technologies that are most likely to transform UK plates over the next 10 to 15 years ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have revealed that cells use a previously unknown feat of molecular craftsmanship ...

Scientists have developed two powerful molecular tools that reveal how plants and fungi coordinate one of Earth’s oldest biological partnerships.

Back in 1907, American biologist Henry Van Peters Wilson discovered that sponges will re-form into living creatures after their cells are broken apart through a fine mesh screen — demonstrating that ...

A new study has overcome a long-standing challenge: how to isolate and study elusive HIV-infected cells called authentic reservoir clones (ARCs) that evade the immune system, making the disease ...

Cultivated meat is still referred to by an array of names, from ‘lab-grown’ to ‘cell-cultured’ – a new poll spotlights the most appealing way to describe it to consumers. In a country with more ...

Generally, someone may receive a patent for any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. However, for over 75 years, courts have made a judicial exception to this rule ...

UI’s Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank will use a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to consolidate its various labs and offices into a lab twice as large on the north wing ...