Page 31 - Environmental Sciences News Today

Researchers have discovered that benzoxazinoids, which are produced in large quantities by corn plants, reduces the arsenic toxicity of soil.

/PRNewswire/ -- Tompkins Conservation and its co-founders and benefactors, Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and the late Douglas R. Tompkins, are donating their...

Industrial activity produces carbon monoxide emissions, which are a powerful indication of total air pollution levels and have major health effects on people.

In the quest to optimize crop productivity across environments, soybean breeders test new cultivars in multiple locations each year. The best-performing cultiva

<p><strong>The loss-of-function mutation of <em>KMT2C</em>, a gene involved in histone modification, leads to the development of autism and other neurodevelopmental deficits. However, the precise mechanism of the disease progression is still unknown. Now, researchers from Japan have developed an animal model and elucidated the mechanism by which mutation in genes involved in chromatin modification causes autism. They have also discovered a drug that can be used in the tre...

<p>In a study that spans more than a decade, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have looked at generations of families in a specific population to reveal the role newly inherited DNA variants play on recessive disease traits, and in the process, they have created a population specific database revealing unique DNA information unseen in larger cohorts.</p>

In the quest to optimize crop productivity across environments, soybean breeders test new cultivars in multiple locations each year. The best-performing cultiva

SFCC announces summer continuing education classes

“We are now simply a collection of things. Things we acquire. Our car, our laptop, our phone, our home, if we're lucky enoug

There is a new 4-H Youth Development Coordinator in Coffee County.