Empowering undergraduates to think critically about science in the media and society. A revolution is quietly unfolding in the field of evolutionary biology, challenging entrenched paradigms and ...

By analyzing DNA from different cells in nearly 200 lines of maize plants, research led by the University of Michigan has ...

A new computational biology pipeline has mapped out more than 13,000 groups of protein-coding genes conserved across grasses, ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

New research has uncovered a genetic connection between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), a ...

Researchers suggest discovery of genetic link between ASD and DM1 opens up potential new therapeutic avenues for ASD.

Scientists from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Las Vegas, Nevada (UNLV) have uncovered a ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

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Discover how the GenomeIndia project achieved a groundbreaking milestone by identifying 180 million genetic variants, ...