A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...

Applied since the 1930s to accelerate the process of developing and selecting new valuable agronomic traits, mutation breeding uses a plant’s own genetic make-up, mimicking the natural process of ...

Radiation and Human Mutation In which the fundamental process of human evolution is discussed, with special reference to trends that may be caused by artificial radioactivity, medical X-rays and ...

Stomach Radioactive isotopes can sit in the stomach and irradiate for a long time. Reproductive organs High doses can cause sterility or mutations. Skin Radiation can burn skin or cause cancer.

The next step in mutation breeding is to detect which plants have indeed produced the desired new traits. With recent breakthroughs in detection technologies we help Member States screen plants more ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

What causes a mutation? Mutations can be caused by high-energy sources such as radiation or by chemicals in the environment. They can also appear spontaneously during the replication of DNA.

Researchers investigated whether decades of low-level radiation exposure had caused genetic mutations in dogs living at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) compared to those in the nearby city ...

Stomach Radioactive isotopes can sit in the stomach and irradiate it for a long time. Reproductive organs High doses can cause sterility or mutations. Skin Radiation can burn skin or cause cancer.