An anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear can be devastating for athletes, but other injuries can accompany ACL tears and may worsen knee instability. A sports medicine expert at Baylor College of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Meniscal repair indications have not really changed in recent years. Typically younger, more active patients ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

When facing a volatile climate, nature searches for a way to survive. For plants, that often means spreading new roots deeper and wider in search of water, particularly in times of drought. While ...

Root architecture is a fascinating example of developmental plasticity that involves the interaction of various endogenous pathways regulating growth of the main root axis and lateral root initiation ...

Plants have remarkable stress resistance, owing to the high flexibility in their architecture and growth pattern in response to external conditions. This flexibility is based on the continuous ...

Biologists have discovered a cellular transporter that links two of the most powerful hormones in plant development -- auxin and cytokinin -- and shows how they regulate root initiation and ...

The ability of rice plants to modify their root systems to adapt to the surrounding soil water conditions is a great example of a phenomenon called phenotype plasticity. However, the exact mechanism ...

A gene involved in the development of lateral roots is found to play a role in the formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules ...