Researchers unveil the inner mechanisms of the most intricate and complex molecular machine in human biology. Scientists at ...

What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red, yellow or orange bill? A major new study has uncovered the ...

Political scientist Kevin Smith says his research suggests “political orientations are at least partially under genetic ...

The CRISPR molecular scissors have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of genetic diseases. This is because they can ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the ...

First-of-its-kind deep-sea ‘ghost’ shark with rare genetic disorder caught - Rare angular rough shark caught off Albanian ...

Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, ...

WashU biologists, led by Xuehua Zhong in Arts & Sciences, investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their ...

Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first ...