2+ week, 22+ 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…...

1+ week, 22+ 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…...

4+ week, 2+ hour 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…...

16+ hour, 5+ min ago   (674+ words) Spatial omics technologies have transformed biology by allowing scientists to measure gene expression, proteins, chromatin states and even metabolites directly within intact tissue sections, preserving the geographical context that single-cell methods discard....

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (400+ words) | Newswise Newswise Ginsenoside from Panax plants rewires root growth by blocking auxin traffic and triggering oxidative stress Integrative analysis of morphological alterations in P. ginseng adventitious roots following ZR1 treatment. Continuous cropping of Panax species—medicinal plants valued for their ginsenoside content…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (485+ words) Stanford and Carnegie Mellon’s Eterna platform uses AI-designed pseudoknot secondary structures to build novel 3D RNA architectures This week’s cover of the international journal 'Science' features the 'pseudoknots' of several ribonucleic acids (RNA). A pseudoknot is a structure in which a…...

12+ hour, 24+ 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…...

21+ hour, 13+ min ago   (651+ words) Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) is one of the most important forage grasses in temperate agriculture, prized for its rapid growth, high digestibility and adaptability to intensive grazing and cutting systems. Yet behind its agronomic value lies a stubborn problem…...