The field of genetics is advancing through rapid improvements in genomic assays, analysis methods, functional validation, and clinical and agricultural ...

The global population and climate change demand sustainable, nutritionally-rich food systems. This research topic focuses on functional foods and ...

For millennia, evolution has intrigued many great thinkers, prompting questions about how new traits emerge as species adapt over time. Then, attention shifted to natural selection and the inheritance ...

Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes expressed in a particular cell determine what that cell can do. Moreover, each step in the flow of ...

The story seems to get stranger the further scientists delve into the origins of life. For many years, scientists thought they had discovered a microscopic ...