2+ min ago   (729+ words) A review article that promised to map the future of fish nutrigenomics has been struck from the scientific record, and the reasons behind its retraction are drawing attention far beyond the aquaculture community....

2+ min ago   (580+ words) Plant height may seem like a simple trait, but in soybean it sits at the heart of one of agriculture’s most consequential trade-offs. Tall plants can shade weeds and capture light, yet they topple in wind and rain, complicate harvest,…...

15+ min ago   (634+ words) For years, immunologists have regarded neutrophils as short-lived first responders, cells that surge into infected or injured tissue, unleash a burst of antimicrobial chemicals, and then die within hours....

15+ min ago   (83+ words) When the first fish lineage crawled onto land some 375 million years ago, its fins had to be remodeled into limbs capable of bearing weight. Evolutionary biologists have long focused on the genes that pattern the skeleton—Hox clusters, Sonic hedgehog,…...

15+ min ago   (84+ words) Every year, a substantial share of the apples grown across Europe never reaches a consumer. The European Union harvested roughly 11.5 million tons of apples in 2023, yet estimates suggest that more than 20 percent is lost during primary production, with further losses…...

15+ min ago   (540+ words) Computed tomography has long been one of medicine’s most powerful windows into the human body, but a fundamental limitation has always lurked beneath its grayscale images. Conventional CT measures how much X-rays are attenuated as they pass through tissue, a…...

42+ min ago   (70+ words) Peppers are among the world’s most valuable vegetable crops, prized for their culinary versatility, vibrant pigments, and nutritional content, yet they remain dangerously vulnerable to cold. Even brief exposure to chilling temperatures can disrupt membrane integrity, suppress photosynthesis, and throw…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (512+ words) Researchers have introduced DartUniFrac, a new software tool designed to carry out UniFrac-based microbiome comparisons at a scale that was previously impractical....

1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (69+ words) The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes has long been prized by microbiologists for its remarkable versatility: it survives refrigeration, persists on stainless steel surfaces in food-processing plants, and invades host cells with a precision that few bacteria can match. A new…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (679+ words) For most of modern biology, the hunt for new human proteins has followed a familiar path: read the genetic sequence, predict where genes begin and end, and work outward from there. That strategy has served science remarkably well, delivering the…...