Genes make up the blueprints and outline the process of building every living organism. To ensure that the right genes are ...

The findings from the University of Bonn and LMU Munich challenge previous assumptions. Certain sequences in the genome ...

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...

Early development of an embryo is solely supported by maternally deposited RNAs and proteins until its own genome is activated through a process called zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Recent work by ...