In a paper appearing online in the journal Plant Physiology, a team from Lawrence Livermore led by Michael Thelen, in collaboration with researchers from…
The University of Texas at Austin scientists exploited the fact that all life on Earth shares common ancestry, and therefore shares sets of genes.They found…
Lignin is the double-edged sword of biofuels: if you are making cellulosic ethanol, you want less lignin because it blocks the breakdown of cellulose. If you…
And the very treatments that can help can also put patients' lives at risk.The standard treatment is infusion with an expensively produced protein that helps…
Like a band of detectives surveying the movement of a criminal, researchers using photographic technology have caught at least one culprit in the act.In this…
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute today announced that they have…