During embryonic development, thousands of cells divide and move collectively, sculpting the main body axes from an initially ...

Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the ...

Within the animal kingdom, a naturally produced molecule known as itaconate serves a prominent role in the immune system as a ...

Scientists have discovered that a molecule known for defending animal immune systems called itaconate also plays a powerful ...

Within the animal kingdom, a naturally produced molecule known as itaconate serves a prominent role in the immune system as a ...

“Our idea is that instead of modifying an existing chromosome, we design it from the ground up,” explained Prof Harris. “We’re rethinking what plants can do for us. This synthetic chromosome could one ...

Horticultural crops play a vital role in ensuring global food security, improving nutritional health, and supporting economic ...

Cambridge researchers have secured £7.5 million to build "programmable plants," a revolutionary initiative poised to ...

A world-first effort to build an artificial chromosome entirely from scratch in plants has received more than $12 million in ...

New research from Max Planck Institute reveals how plants defend their genomes from invasion by chloroplast DNA.

Two groups involving researchers from the University of Cambridge's Department of Plant Sciences are among nine teams to have been awarded funding ...

Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, and ‡ Chromosome Engineering Research Center, Tottori University, 683-8503, ...