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Oranges, pummelos, clementines and mandarins. Wu et al. generate a highquality reference haploid genome of a clementine and resequence eight related species to reveal the ancestry of citrus varieties (p 656). Credit: Toni Siebert
Despite the complexity of drought tolerance, researchers are making progress in the search for crops that can produce seed with limited water. Emily Waltz reports.
A life science business plan competition designed to catalyze young bioentrepreneurs shows the way for other regions seeking to galvanize biotech startups.
The biotech sector's record in originating high-priority medicines exceeds that of the pharmaceutical industry, its costs are lower and its products have comparable revenues.
For several cancer types analyzed by The Cancer Genome Atlas project, predictions of patient survival were not substantially improved by using common data mining approaches to combine traditional clinical variables with molecular profiling data.
The activity of a peptide agonist on a G protein–coupled receptor is readily modulated by altering its backbone structure without changing its side chains.
Genome sequences of nine species of citrus, including oranges, pummelos and mandarins, reveal pathways of domestication and provide resources for breeding.
