Cutting-edge editing techniques are accelerating efforts to create high-yield, resilient varieties of major agricultural products.

A significant advancement in knowledge of the link between cognition and genetics has been made thanks to a study led by ...

Thanks to DNA mapping, these discoveries pave the way for a broader understanding of the ways in which genetic alterations ...

Around one-third of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) harbor FLT3 gene mutations which are associated with poor prognosis and high risk of relapse. Several compounds targeting FLT3 internal ...

Evolution is the basis of biological diversity, driven by mechanisms that allow organisms to adapt and survive. One such ...

Evolution is the basis of biological diversity, driven by mechanisms that allow organisms to adapt and survive. One such mechanism is polyploidy ...

Ben Johnson agreed Monday to terms with the Bears on a date when their only Super Bowl-winning coach signed.

NMSU biology assistant professor Teri Orr, whose research focuses on evolutionary and ecological mechanisms, is a co-author who contributed to the study to determine how woodrats are able to survive ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome ... meaning it can be inherited from just one parent -- of many gene mutations. The condition can lead to complications as severe as ...

A massive trans-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS) looked at the genetic makeup of 688,808 individuals with depression and 4,364,225 people in the control group and identified, in total ...

In 1970, Japanese-American biologist Susumu Ohno proposed that the main source of new genes is gene duplication. When the body’s genome has two copies of the same gene, one copy can continue ...