Many thanks to long-time friend-of-the-blog Dr Colin Khoury for this latest contribution. Conservation gap analysis using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools relies on several sources of ...

With less than six months until the next Recommended List (RL) is announced, leading Independent seed breeder Elsoms Seeds has strengthened its current variety portfolio with four impressive new ...

There is general agreement amongst agronomists that the recent rains came at the right time for winter wheat crops across the ...

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has reportedly passed away at 100. His death has sparked public interest in ...

Abstract: We present the first parallel and distributed implementation of an islands model Genetic Algorithm (GA) for the DNA fragment assembly problem (FAP) using the Rust programming language. The ...

Abstract: Agriculture is a major part of the world economy as it provides food safety. However, in recent years, it has been noted that plants are extensively infected by different diseases. This ...

The Proton Semiconductor Sequencer from Ion Torrent Systems Inc., a new DNA sequencing machine and chip designed to sequence the entire human genome in about eight hours, is displayed at the Life ...

Coffee leaf rust (CLR), caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, is among the most important diseases affecting coffee all over the world. In Kenya, it is currently the second most important disease, ...

Researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have proposed the formal name Coffea × libex for hybrids of the liberica and excelsa coffee species, arguing that the cross could provide a ...

Sometimes we tend to ignore a family history of cholesterol as a significant risk for heart attacks. So I had a 37-year-old health-conscious executive with a family history of heart disease come to me ...

Aerial view of the evacuated city of Prypiat in 2019. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has become one of the world’s strangest wildlife refuges. Animals from worms and ...

Just months until her next big cinematic adventure, Supergirl is getting a new form that’s both incredibly cool and incredibly terrifying. For the last year, Kara Zor-El has been reconnecting to her ...