Genetic engineering reduces plant's chromosome number without affecting its growth

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

How fish embryos first regulate their genes

A RIKEN researcher and his colleague have identified how genes are expressed in fish embryos when they first start using ...
EMBO Press

From microscopes to maps: enabling a new era of open and reproducible data sharing in intravital imaging

In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Pizzagalli and colleagues present proof-of-principle analyses of immune cell motility ...
eLife

Synaptic density and relative connectivity conservation maintain circuit stability across development

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...
AFN

Avalo harnesses ‘whole genome AI’ to accelerate crop breeding: ‘We look at the forest, not the trees’

Avalo deploys interpretable machine learning (IML) to develop more climate resilient varieties of crops such as sugarcane and ...
Communications of the ACM

Advancing AI in Agriculture through Large-Scale Collaborative Research

Five federally funded AI institutes provide a backbone for agriculture-focused AI research. The grand challenge facing global ...