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Photo: Rice seedling, roots, by Myrmux, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Roots Become Jackhammers

How do flimsy, tiny roots get through hard soil? A root tip hitting hardpan switches on a flurry of signals that get to work on anchorage and penetration. Read More ›
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Photo: A hawk's eye, by abrinsky via Flickr (cropped).

Paper Provides More Evidence that Mutations Aren’t Random

A news release from the University of Haifa pulls no punches about the implications. Read More ›
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As Research Advances, Debunking “Junk DNA” Is Almost Trendy

Why not treat the whole genome as functional? This is a radical concept, but perhaps the focus on genes distorts our understanding.  Read More ›

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