Tag: gene

Disease is shaping how wolves look in North America.

Understanding how genetics influences problem drinking can help us help those at risk.

No other team has successfully applied gene-editing techniques to reptiles.

A gene that helps our pancreata repair can also lead to sickness.

The model could solve mysteries about DNA and lead to novel medicines.

No time like mealtime.

"They're OUR genes, tovarish plant" -- grasses.

Back to the wild for inspiration.

A genetic fluke two to three million years ago turned humans into the best endurance runners around.

Don't mind me, just borrowing some genes to make gravity-sensing crystals. Sorry, what?

Their insane ability to survive almost anything is written in their DNA.

A gene mutation that makes it likely for women to develop breast cancer doesn't actually make the disease worse.

The Amish could hold the secret to the 'fountain of youth'.

Only two genes code both the canvas and paintbrush for the intricate butterfly wing patterns.

It changes their genes.

The genes, it's all in the genes.

Immense potential in a small cell.

A mosquito with a gene that blocks the malaria parasite has been created in the laboratory, a new research reports.

Researchers from Portugal believe they finally have the answer.

Flap your hands like a shark.

A new study on mice shows great promise for treating colon cancer - a simple genetic tweak can turn colorectal ...

In the quest to understand what are the crucial differences between human and chimpanzee brains, scientists have isolated a stretch ...

We've come a long way since the first mammal, a sheep named Dolly, was cloned. Now, a lab in South ...

Genetic diversity is essential to our survival, but its exactly the huge variance in genetic information that makes all so ...

A massive independent genetic survey sought to replicate the findings of a 20 year old controversial study which identified a stretch ...

It's common knowledge that babies born out of tall parents will most likely grow to be just as tall, but it's only ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE)  re-activated the expression of an ancient gene in mice. To ...

Effects of Alzheimer's. Image: healthbenefitstimes.com Researchers at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) have found a chemical switch that both ...

  Mice in the control group refused to drink alcohol When a certain gene was deactivated, they started preferring alcohol ...

Scientists have discovered an atypical gene that is thought to be crucial for the generation of new neurons in the ...

A study has shown that genetically modified salmon that breed with wild trout can produce a fast-growing, competitive fish that ...

According to a new study conducted by Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads a genetics laboratory at Stanford University in California, ...

(c) S. Zhong and J. Giovannoni A newly published researchers by scientists at University of California Davis and Cornell University ...

Another breakthrough in biology and medicine was reported, as scientists were able, for the first time, to take skin cells ...

Skin and hair color are most inherited from parents, and usually hint pretty accurately to a person's ethnicity. Dark skin ...

Good news for men, and especially women: the Y chromosome, which holds the male sex determining genes in most mammals, ...

The lead singer, rock legend bat beheader has done pretty much anything you can do in this life. He played ...

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have conducted a study showing that the deletion of a particular gene makes ...

History is just teeming with examples of brilliant artists that acted in very peculiar ways - to put it lightly. ...

This is what researchers believe to be the first true comeback of a gene in the human/great ape lineage; the ...

Recently, it seems there's a gene for everything, from generosity to ruthlesness. That still doesn't mean that you can blame ...