Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

A University of Michigan-led study based on a review of genetic and health information from more than 276,000 people finds strong support for a decades-old evolutionary theory that sought to explain ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

Even as humpbacks rebound in number, their genomes reveal a loss of genetic diversity and a buildup of harmful mutations left ...

The consensus meeting: “Update on the interface between ART and Genetics” was held in Brussels, Belgium, March 5-6, 2012. Published with permission from the European Society of Human Genetics and ...

Researchers have identified a genetic sequence that is essential for plant reproduction. As this region is found in all plant species, it is expected to contribute to future crossbreeding initiatives ...

When Mika Matera-Vatnick ’21 received President Martha E. Pollack’s email in March announcing the closing of campus, her first thought was, “What am I gonna do with my flies?” Matera-Vatnick, like ...

When roundworms stop reproducing, they can still move and function normally but lose their ability to detect certain food odors that once led them to their meals. Researchers at Nagoya University have ...

A new exhibition at Germany's Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (ZKM) features a genetically faithful reproduction of the ear Vincent van Gogh reportedly cut off in 1888 during a psychotic episode ...

Nagoya University researchers discovered a gene that actively suppresses food-odor detection in roundworms after reproduction ...