Category: 1. Edi-Choice

A plant that can’t make seeds has a big problem: it can grow, but it struggles to move. Without seeds to hitch rides on wind, water, or animals, an asexual plant is often stuck near its parent, piling up in the same patch of habitat and risking…

The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neurone disease, for 55 years. He was one of the longest-surviving people with the condition.

However, most people with motor neurone…

A metric that looks beyond height and weight to underlying biological markers of metabolic health is providing revised estimates of disease risk.

According to a new study led by scientists at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, a higher…

Longtime NASA astronaut Suni Williams announced her retirement Tuesday — officially making the unexpectedly long Boeing Starliner test flight her final foray to orbit as a member of the astronaut corps.

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All dating work was undertaken at the BIOMICS laboratory in the Geoarchaeology and Archaeometry Research Group (GARG) of Southern Cross University (Lismore, New South Wales, Australia). U-series measurements were obtained using an ESI NW193 ArF…

When Lola was eight years old, she went through a massive growth spurt and started developing acne. Her mother, Elise, thought Lola was just growing fast because of genes inherited from her father. But when she noticed that Lola had grown pubic…

Generation of m11 chimeric Fc protein and m11-specific antibodies

The MCMV m11–Fc (also referred to as vCD44BP–Fc) fusion protein was generated using Sew-PCR to attach the Fc portion of human IgG1 to the part of the m11 gene that encodes its…