Just because scientists claim they have now brought back the extinct dire wolf, should we consider ‘bringing back’ more extinct species, or is it best to let sleeping dogs lie?

One out of 31 children — more than 3% of kids — have been identified with autism, according to the latest results published ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, finds a new global study.

Years of research in the field of genetics have offered interesting insights spanning the origins and development of heredity ...

Agricultural genetics is the applied study of the effects of genetic variation and selection used to propagate valuable heritable trait combinations in crop plants and farm animals. The discipline ...

A new multicenter study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute-funded Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) ...

In the default model, the graph representing each individual enhancer can be arbitrarily complicated. To show how the ABC Score formula can arise from the default model, we need to impose the further ...

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological ... This Review explores the genetic basis of diversification and adaptation in non-human primates, including their responses to ...

This valuable study combines real-time keypoint tracking with transdermal activation of sensory neurons to investigate sensory neuron recruitment in freely moving mice, and builds on the authors' ...

Our researchers combine genetic and molecular tools, e.g. genetic engineering and screening, with computational approaches such as bioinformatics and systems biology, to understand yeast, bacterial, ...