Corn genetics provides insight into the crop’s historical spread across the Americas
Evolutionary bottlenecks brought on by domestication have caused the genome of corn to retain harmful mutations over the course of millennia.
Evolutionary bottlenecks brought on by domestication have caused the genome of corn to retain harmful mutations over the course of millennia.
Sean Grass has been elected Vice President of the international Dickens Society, the largest academic organization in the world devoted to the study of Charles Dickens’s life and works. His election to the position came at the close of a three-year term as a Trustee of the Society, a position to which he was named … Continue reading Sean Grass elected Vice President of Dickens Society
First-generation Iowa State graduate Grace Ansah fell in love with biology, and plans to go to medical school — with a side trip to her family’s homeland in Ghana first.
A conversation in a bowling alley helped Nik Heftman land a job with CBS News in New York. For a guy who faced his share of obstacles to earn a degree, he felt his hard work had finally paid off.
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The Carver Trust will provide $375,000 to support the research project of Vincenzo Venditti, assistant professor of chemistry at Iowa State.