Native to southwest China, pandas spend up to 16 hours a day devouring bamboo, absorbing a genetic material called microRNA (miRNA) into their bloodstream, according to research published Friday ...

Native to southwest China, pandas spend up to 16 hours a day devouring bamboo, absorbing a genetic material called microRNA (miRNA) into their bloodstream, according to research published Friday ...

An international team of researchers led by China West Normal University (CWNU) has found that tiny plant molecules from bamboo have infiltrated the bodies of giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca ...

Now, researchers in China have explored if plant-derived miRNA can enter giant pandas' systems and regulate gene expression and thereby aid adaptation to a bamboo-based diet. "We showed that plant ...

National Panda Day highlights global conservation efforts to protect pandas from habitat loss and possible extinction.

The animal lays eggs in the tiny puddles created on top of broken bamboo, researchers said. Patrick Hendry via Unsplash When a trunk of bamboo snaps in the forests of the Huaping National Natural ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet – and Chinese scientists now think they know why.

Native to southwest China, pandas spend up to 16 hours a day devouring bamboo, absorbing a genetic material called microRNA (miRNA) into their bloodstream, according to research published Friday in ...