While sexual reproduction is the predominant strategy among animals, some species have evolved the ability to reproduce asexually ...

Neanderthals clung onto existence in Eurasia until roughly 40,000 years ago, yet new research suggests that their numbers declined drastically around 70,000 years prior to their eventual extinction.

When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...

Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...

This analysis was conceived by its author as a trilogy of commentaries in the wake of Decision 16/2 from the 16th Conference ...

Blood proteins serve as crucial indicators of health and disease risk throughout development. Now, researchers at the ...

Rates of genetic testing for autism and intellectual and development disorders were associated with race, gender, and insurance company.

Cells are constantly on the move, whether in a developing embryo or metastatic cancer. But how do cells adapt to the new ...

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

In a study published in Nature, researchers report the successful in vitro reconstitution of meiotic DNA double-strand breaks ...

Scientists employ deep learning to analyze and compare gene regulation across various cell types in human and chicken brains.

Conservationists need to act fast, though. Researchers make breakthrough discovery after studying genetics of trees: 'There ...