Indigenous Indonesian communities—like the Papuan Abui people of Alor—are the custodians of very ancient knowledge. Their ...

Once upon a time there was a man in a land called Sweden. It was the 1700s and his name was Carl Linnaus.

A PREVIOUSLY unknown species of carnivorous pitcher plant found only in Palawan has been flagged as critically endangered, after scientists documented an extremely small and fragile population ...

Nearly four decades ago, Francis Young, chief administrative law judge at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), concluded that marijuana did not belong in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances ...

Abstract: Identifying medicinal plants is crucial in herbal medicine, pharmaceutical research, and plant taxonomy. Conventional manual classification techniques tend to be errorprone and ...

The code and database described here will allow you to obtain a taxonomic label for your viral genome(s) based on the Unified Human Gut Virome (UHGV) taxonomy. The UHGV is a comprehensive and deeply ...

It appears problems at Novo Nordisk’s recently acquired manufacturing facility in Indiana aren’t going to be solved any time soon. The FDA has tagged the former Catalent facility with an official ...

Johanna Schmitt, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is a plant geneticist and evolutionary ecologist. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) How can plants adapt to their environment, and how will ...

Morphological and molecular data provide essential evidence for estimating evolutionary relationships in plants (Sattler and Rutishauser, 1997, 2022; Janaćković et ...