Wheat has a very large and complex genome. Researchers have found that different varieties can use their genes in different ways. By studying RNA—the molecules that carry out instructions from ...

EVENTUALLY, WE’RE ALL GOING TO FACE DEATH AND DYING. A LOCAL PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR FACING A TERMINAL CANCER DIAGNOSIS. IT’S NOT SOMETHING WE LIKE TO THINK ABOUT OR TALK ABOUT, AND THERE’S WAYS THAT ...

The result is BIRDBASE, “a comprehensive global dataset documenting ecological and life history traits for 11,589 bird species across 254 families. I created the first version between 1999 and 2003 ...

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