Explore the ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered.

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...
The Conversation

Plants and animals with bigger genomes grow less efficiently – new research helps explain why they never died out

Kimberley Simpson receives funding from the British Ecological Society and the Natural Environment Research Council. All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one ...
Labroots

The symbiotic relationship between humans and plants

A study on medicinal plants published in Cell highlights the symbiotic relationship between humans and plant species, particularly in the context of medicine. This relationship, which spans millennia, ...