Unveiling a new chapter in the understanding of human genetics, scientists have discovered a hidden geometric code within our ...

A new reptile genetics testing company, Phenome, is working on fully mapping out the genomes of a number of reptile species for the first time. The company first made its debut this year at the North ...

European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is ...

Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents a rare and intriguing deviation from the standard model of strictly maternal inheritance. In bivalves, DUI manifests as the ...

One hundred years after the heroic journey to Nome, scientists reveal how Balto's DNA explains his incredible endurance and ...

The genes we inherit may have a subtle influence over whether we experiment with and make a habit of using cannabis.

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

BYU plant and wildlife professors Rick Jellen and Jeff Maughan, together with an international consortium of researchers, ...