STANDING among a group of children at Kuda Vana Partnership in Manicaland, William Pepukai is surrounded by laughter, chatter and a chorus of requests. The scene is familiar to anyone returning home ...

The DNA glycosylase MutY, which is a member of the Helix-hairpin-Helix (HhH) DNA glycosylase superfamily, excises adenine from mispairs with 8-oxoguanine and guanine. High-resolution crystal ...

Rituals seem to be declining in modern life. Finding ways to gather together meaningfully can help us combat loneliness, pain, and division. Decades of research suggest that the quality of our social ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a rule that removes the requirement that shellfish have an external shell. Photo ...

Fascinated by plants? Enjoy research? Want to make a difference in agriculture, health, biotechnology, the environment or industry? Plant biology might be the major for you. Plants are the primary ...

Animals play important roles in human economy, society and culture. They can be valuable economic resources, beloved companions, destructive nuisances or members of complex natural systems. Animal ...

Evolutionary developmental biology is the comparative study of organismal development and how it has evolved. There is a particular focus on the genetic basis of phenotypic structures, how they change ...

Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel DNA methylation represents an annotation system for marking the genetic ...