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The San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas is leading an effort to turn plants into better medicines. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge explains what we already know about herbal remedies — and what ...

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

The new EPiC (Engineered Plants in Culture) project at UC Davis will explore technology for growing plants and plant tissues in bioreactors with minimal use of resources. The technology could be used ...

Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that ...

Chinese scientists have launched an ambitious international megascience project to decode the genetic blueprint of major land ...

This year’s WPS Science & Engineering Fair was one of the largest in recent memory, with over 100 judges, 350 students, and 228 projects. The projects that will move on to regionals have yet to be ...