Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory biologists have found a way to remove prickles from plants genetically. Their discovery could change the way we think about evolution in general. COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y.

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Roses do not have thorns; they have prickles. But there ARE “thorns” in the rose garden. Their names are botrytis, black spot, rust, downy mildew, anthracnose and cerospora leaf spot. They are all ...

According to Greek mythology, red roses first appeared when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a white rose. Since then, roses’ thorns have captured the imaginations of countless ...

Thorns, mistakenly referred to as "thorns" for roses, have appeared in various plant varieties over hundreds of millions of years of evolution. An international research consortium, led by Cold Spring ...

Did you know roses have prickles and not thorns? A thorn is a sharp modified stem that grows out of the woody stems of many kinds of trees and shrubs such as honey locust and hawthorn with a short ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A rose at the New York Botanical Garden; some varieties grow naturally “thornless.” Jack Satterlee, a postdoc in CSHL’s Lippman lab, turned to the Botanical Garden for help procuring rare plant ...