3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (537+ words) Deep in the steaming runoff channels of Taiwan’s hot springs, a group of microbes has been quietly rewriting the rules of photosynthesis. These are the far-red light-utilizing cyanobacteria, or FRLCyano, organisms capable of extending oxygenic photosynthesis beyond the visible spectrum…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (328+ words) | Newswise Newswise Complete monk fruit genome reveals a gentle path to domestication Monk fruit, or Siraitia grosvenorii, has long been used as both a medicinal plant and a source of zero-calorie sweetness. Yet modern production relies heavily on only a…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (839+ words) The black rabbits of China have long been prized by local farmers for their hardiness, their flavorful meat, and their remarkable ability to thrive where commercial breeds struggle. Yet despite centuries of informal reputation, the genetic secrets of two of…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (86+ words) In a discovery that offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of sex chromosomes caught in the act of being born, researchers in China have mapped the earliest stages of X and Y chromosome evolution in the darkbarbel catfish (Tachysurus…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (805+ words) Lodging, the structural failure of crop stems that bend or collapse under their own weight or under the pressure of wind and rain, remains one of the most persistent threats to agricultural productivity worldwide....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (901+ words) A trio of tiny snails collected along China’s coasts and waterways has provided scientists with new genetic clues to one of evolution’s most remarkable ecological stories: how members of the same gastropod family repeatedly moved between the sea, brackish estuaries…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1087+ words) Decoding Sumatra’s “King of the River”: First Complete Mitogenome of the Enigmatic Mahseer Traces an Ancient Maternal Line Through Sunken Worlds Deep in the fast-flowing headwaters of northern Sumatra glides a fish that local communities have revered for generations as…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (596+ words) They created fertile female mice from cells carrying the male genome. How many parents does it take to make a family? According to a new study, just one. In a striking experiment, researchers in Japan used cells from male mice…...