CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP Indonesia will introduce free medical screenings next month as part of the country's effort to detect various diseases early and avoid preventable deaths, the government says.
Gardeners with apple or pear trees are being warned to check them in January for a potentially deadly disease. Alan Buckingham, author of Allotment Month By Month, advises in the January section ...
The approach involves inserting a gene into a citrus tree that produces a protein that can kill baby Asian citrus psyllids, the bugs that transmit the greening disease. That gene normally occurs in a ...
Dutch elm disease has claimed the life of a 100-year-old elm tree in the Waikato, despite the tree being vaccinated. The fatal and fast-spreading disease is caused by a species of fungus and ...
Summary: New research reveals that certain cells inactivate one parent’s copy of a gene, leading to a bias in gene activity that may explain why some individuals with disease-causing mutations remain ...
Like humans, feral mammals - goats, deer, and pigs - can easily transport soil containing spores of the disease from one precious kauri tree to another. While humans can be barred from entering ...
Dutch elm disease has claimed the life of a 100-year-old elm tree in the Waikato, despite the tree being vaccinated. The fatal and fast-spreading disease is caused by a species of fungus and ...