The newly discovered gene that sets us apart from Neanderthals - This unique adaptation gave Homo sapiens an evolutionary ...

Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time in the world using mice, the ability to overcome significant challenges in ...

I just think the lesson is that DNA really gets around. —Nancy Moran, University of Texas at Austin If Li had been studying bacteria, finding this kind of lateral or horizontal gene transfer (HGT) ...

Where to begin? Most protocols generally use transfection at some stage, points out Garry Nolan, an associate professor at Stanford University, because even with viral transductions, the gene still ...

Critics of agricultural biotechnology have often been dismissed as modern-day Luddites. However, these critics have an understandable concern, based on a detail of the technology that has been ...

This study is the first to demonstrate that certain tRNA introns influence gene expression. Scientists have discovered that ...

Key findings highlight the role of horizontal gene transfer, the incorporation of foreign bacterial genetic material into the beetle genome, which is thought to be the result of earlier symbioses.

"We were also able to demonstrate that horizontal gene transfer, a phenomenon that describes the incorporation of foreign genes from bacteria into the genome, is quite common in leaf beetles.

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the competition. But sometimes, as in the ...

Minnesota United’s third addition in the primary transfer window became official Tuesday: The Loons signed midfielder Owen ...