Wood warblers, also called New World warblers, are some of the most colorful birds in North America, with more than a hundred ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

Human blood already comes in a bewildering variety of types, but researchers have now identified a new one so rare that only ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic ...

An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

A new study proposes that autism arises when genetic vulnerability, an early environmental trigger, and prolonged activation of the cellular stress response align during critical developmental windows ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

Bedford ‘s Nicole Steele, a biochemistry and molecular biology major at Clark University, is part of a team working with the ...