Wood warblers, also called New World warblers, are some of the most colorful birds in North America, with more than a hundred ...
Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...
Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two species mate. Famous hybrids include offspring between polar and grizzly ...
Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...
In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...
The first study to examine the extent of European ancestry biases in gene maps reveals tens of thousands of genetic ...
An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...
Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...
As global temperatures rise, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists work to grow stronger, more resilient crops. Yet ...
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...