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Small (s)RNAs of 21 to 24 nucleotides are associated with RNA silencing and methylation of DNA cytosine residues. All sizes can move from cell-to-cell and long distance in plants, directing RNA silencing in destination cells. Twenty-four nucleotide sRNAs are the predominant long-distance mobile species. Thousands move from...

Professor Alison Smith, Head of Plant Metabolism in the Department of Plant Sciences at Cambridge University, speaks about the difficulties in moving forward with EU research collaborations. As well as affecting opportunities for collaborative funding applications, there is a real anxiety amongst the many EU nationals who...

This week Richard Smith-Unna from the Hibberd Lab features heavily in a Nature News article on the dirty tricks some academic publishers are using to stifle text & data mining. In the article titled 'Publisher under fire for fake article webpages', Richard explains how he uncovered that the academic publisher Wiley (...

The Yellow Meranti stands 89.5m tall in an area of forest known as ‘Sabah’s Lost World’ – the Maliau Basin Conservation Area, one of Malaysia’s last few untouched wildern esses. Its height places it ahead of the previous record-holder, an 88.3m Yellow Meranti in the Tawau Hills National Park. The giant tree was discovered...