How plants can tell friend from foe
- 10-Nov-2017
A plant’s immune system can recognize whether a piece of RNA is an invader or not based on whether the RNA has a threaded bead-like structure at the end, say University of Tokyo researchers. Their finding provides an answer to the quarter-century-old question of why RNAs belonging to the plant escape its self-defence mechanism, paving […]
Why do humans and other mammals have eyelashes?
- 25-Feb-2015
PARIS: Why do humans and other mammals have eyelashes?
Birds use humanlike genes to speak: research
- 12-Dec-2014
MIAMI: Birds use essentially the same genes to sing as humans do to speak. And flamingos are more closely related to pigeons than they are to pelicans.