Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cracked open the secrets of plant stem cells, mapping key genetic regulators in maize and Arabidopsis. By using single-cell RNA sequencing, they ...

What Is a Carnivorous Plant? Simply speaking, a carnivorous plant is one that eats insects as part of its regular diet. All plants take in carbon dioxide and use sunlight to convert it to food to help ...

How to identify giant hogweed: Can grow up to 14 feet or more. White flowers with 50-150 flower rays clustered into an umbrella shaped flower cluster up to 2.5 feet across. Stems are green with ...

Two years ago President Bush announced a new policy on taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research that moved the issue forward in a way no one had quite imagined. Confronted with a daunting ...