Genomic analysis of two closely related giant flying squirrel species in Taiwan reveals that both show north-south genetic divergence shaped by the island's geography, but their vastly different ...

After the age of 40, the body begins to have clearer changes such as difficult eyesight, muscle weakness, and slow recovery from exercise.

Traits pass from parents to offspring through DNA, or so the standard picture of heredity goes. In tiny worms, a new study found an exception that lasted for generations.

In post-war America, the Rockefeller Foundation funded an ambitious experiment to study canine intelligence through selective ...

When you feel anxious while looking for traces of your husband in your child, deep within that anxiety, there may be a "me" ...

A Chinese insurance company has paid a cancer patient’s critical illness claim after initially rejecting it on the grounds ...

The transmission of biological traits from one generation to the next is generally attributed to DNA. But could some changes ...

Genes, it turns out, are not always the tidy, well-separated units that textbook diagrams suggest. Across the tree of life, ...

AbstractThis paper organizes the discussion of 'The Heredity of Taste' (1906) presented by Junnosuke Kobayashi as part of his ...

The U of A Division of Agriculture's research arm, generated the first high-quality, chromosome-scale reference genome for the rice stink bug, Oebalus pugnax, identifying more than 13,000 genes.

University of Cambridge professor Jason Arday was found dead at his London home on Aug. 16. When Cambridge hired him to teach the sociology of education in 2023, Arday became the youngest black ...

Twins are fascinating and are the subject of many old wives tales. If you have a set of twins in your family, a relative may have told you that you have a higher chance of having twins — but do twins ...