Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

And [thy] are ecologically very important predators in nearly all marine systems.” Recently, the duo’s long-term friendship ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are ...

Polar bears are expected to become extinct but there are some signs their DNA is changing and they are adapting to new ...

Scientists discovered that certain gene changes allow cells to function even when frataxin, the protein lost in Friedreich’s ataxia, is missing. Experiments in worms, human cells, and mice revealed ...

Researchers discovered that a tiny structural feature of the enzyme GPX4 helps keep neurons safe. A rare mutation removes ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

Nebraska USDA ARS scientist identified over 100 DNA marker associations in 60 genes with eight pork quality traits.

Karthik and her team aimed to use CRISPR as a way to identify and isolate a protein generated by the bacteria that cause Lyme ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...