4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (711+ words) The ancient fig tree, one of the first plants ever domesticated by humans, is hiding remarkable genetic secrets in the mountainous corners of southeastern Türkiye....

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (905+ words) From Glass Jar to Open Water: The First Complete Lab Recipe for Rescuing Poland’s Critically Endangered Pondweed In the quiet of a tissue culture laboratory in Szczecin, Poland, a rescue operation is underway, and every one of its patients fits…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (836+ words) Researchers take the first steps toward recreating powerful chemicals derived from plants in the laboratory. Wolfsbane and larkspur can cause neurotoxicity and paralysis at extremely low doses, yet their chemistry has also been used against pain, malaria, cancer, and pests....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (376+ words) From traffic lights to fashion trends, changing from red to green can signal much more than a shift in color. Now, Hiroshima University researchers have shown that the same is true for perilla. Using genome editing, they transformed red perilla…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (454+ words) SFL Educational News Service The Core Concept: Hiroshima University researchers successfully used CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to disrupt the flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H) gene in red perilla (Perilla frutescens), creating a green-leafed variant with a significantly altered metabolic profile. Branch of Science: Genetics,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (257+ words) Traffic lights aren’t the only things that can shift from red to green. A team at Hiroshima University reports that the color of perilla can be reprogrammed using CRISPR-Cas9—while also rewiring the plant’s underlying chemical machinery. The result is…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (310+ words) Climate change and disease pressure are making gene-editing increasingly important to the future success of the banana sector, argues agri-scientist James Dale Gene editing has big potential for future varietal development in bananas The two dominant types of Cavendish, Grand…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (456+ words) Genome-edited perilla plants (left) showing a striking color change from red to green and enhanced accumulation of the health-promoting flavonoid luteolin. (Matsushita et al. / Hiroshima Prefectural Technology Research Institute) From traffic lights to fashion trends, changing from red to green…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (207+ words) The grant concentrates on Candida species, which can pose operational risks by contaminating and degrading DOW-relevant systems. Such systems include aircraft fuel infrastructure, vehicles, electronics, and protective coatings. In these environments, fungi can persist and spread, turning microbial management into…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (440+ words) Posted by the Node, on 14 July 2026 Last month, the Node ran a cover competition with images taken by advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across the Americas who gathered in Chile to participate in the International Course on Developmental…...