Genetics

Ryan Randall (R) and Caelan Radford hold up cultures of lab bacteria with mutated proteins fluorescing in various colors. Credit:...

Mosquitoes are more likely to feed on cattle than on humans if they carry a specific chromosomal rearrangement in their...

Photo Credit: Robert Kofler/Vetmeduni ViennaThe genome is not a fixed code but flexible. It allows changes in the genes. Transposons,...

The Solenodon taxa is the closest living relative to the extinct Nesophontes. Photo Credit: Natural History Museum, London UKFrom skeletal...

Both heredity and environmental factors influence our risk of cardiovascular disease. A new study, by researches at Uppsala University, shows...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Sept. 7, 2016) — Scientists may be closer to answering a long-standing question in biology — how...

Imagine trying to fly a kite without a tail. It swoops and loops and wiggles and finally crashes down into...

The cause of a disease that targets blood vessels in the brain – leading to multiple debilitating symptoms and, often,...

A depiction of the double helical structure of DNA. Its four coding units (A, T, C, G) are color-coded in...

Cross section of mouse muscle (in blue: labeling of nuclei; in green: labeling of muscle fiber membranes). Normal male mice...

Ken-ichi Noma, Ph.D.PHILADELPHIA–(August 22, 2016)– Cancer is often driven by various genetic mutations that are acquired through changes to a...

There are 3 epidemic types of S. Enteritidis based on 675 isolates; 2 African epidemic types and a global epidemic...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new discovery at Michigan State University has revealed how special genes stay open for business,...

Credits: yourgenome.org There is new hope in the fight against Huntington’s disease. Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered that changing...