Recent research into bacterial cellulose patches may speed plants' recovery, improve grafting and help with preservation.

When most people think of parasites affecting their pets, they imagine heartworms in dogs or roundworms in cats. However, ...

Chinese scientists have identified two key genes responsible for sorghum's resistance to Striga, a parasitic plant that causes significant crop losses. The breakthrough, which also highlights the ...

Parasite genetics is the study of the genetic material of parasites, including the distribution, function and evolution of genes and genomes. All genomes are replicated in a temporal order, though ...

Parasite biology is the study of all biological aspects of parasites and parasitic diseases, including the structure, growth, development, genetics, ecology and evolution of these organisms ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

The escape route from the host’s immune system has been developed by food-borne parasites. For example, T. gondii secretes effective proteins (including ROP18 and ROP16) that act on the IFN-I ...

A lot of people will want to know what went wrong, and where, in a plant that is a hodgepodge of lithium battery technology. "That site is actually an example of different ways to design it ...

The team was also able to learn some new details about 16-OH-CLA. For example, they only detected it in plant shoots but not roots, unlike other strigolactones. The compound is also not present at ...

Then, there are gruesome parasites, his latest obsession ... He was the first to document an example of polygamy in the seahorse family, and the imagery showed the process in minute detail ...

He was the first to document an example of polygamy in the seahorse ... More recently, the object of his fascination has turned to parasites. It’s the stuff of horror films: Smith recalls ...