Scientists lay out what we do and don't yet know about moths and butterflies

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...
The Reporter

GMO Maize from Bayer set for Commercial Rollout this Year

The commercialization of genetically modified maize in Ethiopia is slated to begin this year, marking the nation’s first transition toward a genetically ...

Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why

For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee supply ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

All life on Earth shares an ancestor – and some of our genes predate it

The last common ancestor of all living things did not just suddenly appear on Earth roughly 4.2 billion years ago. Some of ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Ghost lineages: The ancient DNA hiding in our genes today?

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...
The Purdue Exponent

Purdue biologist breaks down bacterium behind many GMO crops, CRISPR plant edits

Purdue Biologist Stanton B. Gelvin explained how Agrobacterium moves DNA into wounded plant cells, and why cracking that “black box” matters for agriculture during a seminar Wednesday afternoon at the ...