Today on World Food Day, a team of Plant Scientists from King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) has begun a major project to improve global date palm production and protection.

Protein-folded DNA nanostructures offer a new building material for biotechnology.

Discarded PET bottles could find a new life in the chemical industry.

A protein, with a name reminiscent of legendary Greek sailors, has an unexpected role inside the human nucleus.

Factors influencing the tolerance of barley to saline soils have been uncovered using an advanced robust statistical technique.

Plant scientist Salim Al-Babili and his team are working across many fronts to save sub-Saharan African cereal crops from a menacing weed.

Discovery of signaling intermediary could lead to more pest-resistant crops.

No evidence of infection found in the bacterial community around shark wounds.

Identifying genes that confer resistance to leaf rust infections could help generate durably resistant cereal crops.

Medical diagnostic device extracts energy from sugars naturally present in the body to drive its glucose-sensing circuitry.

A Cas protein that cleaves viral RNA has been harnessed in a CRISPR/Cas system to destroy prolific viral infections in crop plants.

E-selectin is grown in silkworms for the first time, revealing new aspects of its binding dynamics.

First evidence that animal DNA methylation patterns can be passed to the next generation.

Carbon dioxide bubbles could be a fast and environmentally friendly way to unclog seawater filters and keep the supply of drinking water flowing.

With about half the world’s population living close to the coast, using seawater to flush toilets could be possible with a salt-tolerant bacterium.

Laser-based microscopes can tune into multiple biomolecular signatures found in cancer cells.