Animals FDA approves first genetically modified animal: a salmon that grows twice as fast November 20, 2015 - Updated on January 18, 2021
Genetics Holocaust survivors encode trauma in their genes and pass it on to offspring November 9, 2015
Biology Drug resistant Strep and the return of the scarlet fever November 6, 2015 - Updated on November 7, 2015
Biology How the brain keeps your heat and water balance October 20, 2015 - Updated on December 22, 2022
Genetics Twisting DNA into unexpected shapes raises new exciting possibilities October 12, 2015 - Updated on October 13, 2015
Agriculture Feeding the world through global warming: Altering one plant gene makes for climate-resilient crops October 8, 2015 - Updated on October 9, 2015
Genetics The universal test for viral infections could be a game changer October 1, 2015 - Updated on November 16, 2020
Biology Adorable gene-edited micropigs to be sold as pets in China – and this is a problem September 30, 2015
Biology Crops farmed by leafcutter ants show signs of domestication: Leafcutter ants became farmers 50 million years before humans September 15, 2015
Biology Octopus genome finally unraveled, and this is a big deal August 17, 2015 - Updated on August 19, 2015
Genetics This GMO rice tackles global warming by emitting 100 times less methane July 28, 2015 - Updated on July 29, 2015
Anthropology The first Americans came from Russia’s frozen expanse, Siberia, some 23,000 years ago July 25, 2015
Genetics Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf mice, paving the way for human treatment July 14, 2015
Animals Tracing Ivory DNA helps curb massive poaching that’s killing 1 in 10 elephants each year June 29, 2015 - Updated on November 16, 2020
Discoveries Study shakes answers out of the shaking disease: human prion immunity gene isolated June 11, 2015
Biology Genetically modifying human embryos: ‘a line that should not be crossed,’ NIH says April 30, 2015
Biology Why the Dutch are the tallest on the planet: sexual selection April 10, 2015 - Updated on April 14, 2015
Genetics Kid doesn’t like going to school? Your ‘bad’ genes might have a say in all this April 10, 2015
Genetics Autism genes predict higher intelligence – if you’re not autistic in the first place March 11, 2015 - Updated on July 29, 2023
Biology Carnivorous plant lacks junk DNA, shows evolution takes place at a genetic level February 24, 2015
Genetics Big-brained mice engineered using human DNA February 23, 2015 - Updated on February 24, 2015
Genetics DNA might make the ultimate time capsule; one gram is enough to store most human knowledge February 16, 2015
Genetics Why some marriages last for life – genuinely so: a genetic and psychological explanaition February 14, 2015
