Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two ...

Two new studies found that a small, missing piece of DNA located next to a specific protein resulted in orange fur coloration ...

As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...

Ohio State Extension educator Jason Hartschuh offers insight into the prevalence of genetic defects in dairy cattle and ...

More than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals. Bats, in particular, are natural ...

Researchers from Radboudumc, Department of Human Genetics, demonstrated something remarkable in a 2014 publication in Nature.

This valuable study reports the conservation of sperm-egg envelope binding by demonstrating successful recognition of the micropyle in fish eggs by the mouse sperm. However, the evidence supporting ...

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

Among the hundreds of undergraduates who presented their research at this year's Meeting of the Minds — CMU’s annual undergraduate research symposium — some focused their research efforts on improving ...

Single-cell biology has transformed how we decode cellular heterogeneity, but a new frontier is emerging: understanding what individual cells do, not just what they express.

Graham Coop, professor of evolution and ecology and director of the Center for Population Biology, has been elected to ...

Genes aren’t destiny. The ARCH × Φ model explains how brain wiring, motivation, culture, and timing interact—multiplying risk ...