Soybean farmers around the world face a persistent and costly enemy hidden beneath the soil: soybean cyst nematode (SCN), a microscopic roundworm that attacks plant roots and drains yields. SCN is one ...
Utah’s Great Salt Lake has long been cast as a nearly lifeless expanse, a place where brine shrimp and flies scrape by in water that can be up to 8% saltier than the ocean. That story has just been ...
A piece of rotting fruit is likely covered in hundreds if not thousands of microscopic roundworms, including C. elegans—a popular experimental model system for studying neurogenetics. With a lifespan ...
Jeff Corwin, a biologist and wildlife conservationist, said "it's always important when we discover new life," after researchers at the University of Utah discovered a new species of nematodes, or ...
The Delhi High Court dismissed a Japanese company’s bid to patent a nematode-based cancer detection technique, ruling that such methods fall under diagnostic processes that cannot be patented in India ...