I have written periodically on 'green diesel', which should not be confused with biodiesel. Neste, Petrobras, and ConocoPhillips (in a venture with Tyson...

Genetic markers (variations in the DNA among individuals) can be used to infer population structure,...

The term "junk DNA" was not coined on the basis of not knowing what it does. It was not a cop-out or a surrender. Susumu Ohno coined the term in 1972 in...

Biotechnology may not be the first thing people think of when asked for a solution to the major issues of our time such as pollution,...

Science and technology play an increasingly prominent and often controversial role in modern human society. From biotechnology and genetic engineering...

"Come quickly, Watson," said Sherlock Holmes, "I've been asked to review a mysterious sequence, whose importance I'm only now beginning to comprehend."

The sequencing of the second mosquito genome, that of the dengue and yellow fever transmitting mosquito, Aedes aegypti, has enabled comprehensive comparative...

Maize is not native to Africa; however, since being introduced by Portuguese traders in the 16th century...

In the year 2000, at around the time that the first human genome sequence was completed, an inventory of the genetic material of the small mustard plant...