A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through generations, laying the foundations for new insights into the roots of ...

Researchers examine and trace apple DNA. Learn how the apple species trace their evolutionary roots back to Asia almost 56 million years ago.

Engineers and biologists at Dartmouth College have found that, just like word order affects meaning in a sentence, the ...

That's because sex — and gender roles, too —permeates all the way down to the most unreproductive of cell types. If you want to do science about animals including humans, sex as a biological variable ...

Two independent research teams have finally figured out what makes cats orange. It turns out a special gene is responsible ...

Two independent research teams have finally determined what causes cats to be orange. It turns out that a specific gene is ...

Research by German scientists into the genetic makeup of European potato varieties has revealed that, despite significant ...

Researchers have identified changes in brain connectivity before and after puberty that may explain why some children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome are more susceptible to autism and ...

Differences among the DNA of seven ape species—including humans—are greater than originally thought, according to an ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

CML is caused by a rearrangement of genetic material between two chromosomes ... gene, the rate at which cells with BCR::ABL1 start to multiply, and how this contributes to disease progression. In a ...

A new study has unveiled when chronic myeloid leukemia, a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, arises in ...