Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones first emerged and became so diverse.

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Did you know that traits in animal species can re-appear in a new generation hundreds of years later? These ancient ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. A sweeping genetic analysis reveals when obesity is the common thread linking chronic diseases, and ...

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why African-American patients survive for half as long as their counterparts of European ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code. Andrzej ...

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. - Minnesota State University Moorhead biology professors Ellen Brisch and Andrew Mazz Marry have "vamped up" their classes for more than 10 years with a Halloween lecture that offers ...