For the first time, a research team led by the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has mapped the genetic architecture of a ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

New research has thrown a spanner in the works for giraffe conservation, after analyzing the genetics of giraffes kept in human care in North America, and finding that most of those studied are in ...

The field of fish conservation is grappling with the complex challenges posed by human-modified landscapes. As habitats undergo rapid transformation due to ...

Is it due to our genetic inheritance from family, or the consequences of growing up in a certain set of social, economic and ...

NE Derry winter programme kicked off on Thursday, 23 October in The Gadda Centre, Garvagh where John Moore and Victor Chestnutt gave an informative presentation on ‘Sustainable Ruminant Genetics’.

Scientists have successfully created immature human egg-like cells from skin-derived stem cells, a significant step in ...

Oats are a highly nutritious cereal crop with well-documented health benefits. They contain compounds that help lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of metabolic diseases, and they are less likely to ...

European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is inherited without leading to speciation.

Eugenics in colonial Nigeria was not a historical footnote; it was a system of thought that still echoes in the country’s social hierarchies, educational systems, and conflicts. From the suppression ...