Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for developing crops that are resilient or resistant to extreme weather and other ...

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It’s fitting that Pamela Ronald, who would go on to be named one of the world’s 100 most influential people in biotechnology ...

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The federal government has unveiled plans to establish the National Genomics and Bioinformatics Data Generation, Repository ...

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Authorities say all reactor units operating normally after generator blaze in Al Dhafra Region ...

Scientists traced the Irish Potato Famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, to the Andes and discovered it belongs to a much ...

Most proteins belong to evolutionary lineages commonly referred to as protein families, although this fundamental feature is often overlooked in everyday ...

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