Genes are short sections of DNA that determine an animal’s traits—everything from coat color and claw strength to body shape ...

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WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- A group of small, freshwater animals protect themselves from infections using antibiotic recipes “stolen” from bacteria, according to new research by a team from the University of ...

Some insects and roundworms pick up DNA from bacteria living within their cells, new research shows. The DNA transfer occurs in the animals’ egg cells, so the genetic modification passes between ...

One of the most exciting discoveries in genome research was that the last common ancestor of all multicellular animals already possessed an extremely complex genome. It has long been unclear whether ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a gene therapy that could potentially treat a rare and currently fatal ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As a kid, all Vincent Lynch wanted to do was hang out by the river near his home, fishing and crabbing and playing in the muck. School, by contrast, was a bore. Then he discovered ...

Researchers at Clemson University have been investigating how antibiotic resistance can move between species, including from humans into animals. Infectious diseases that can jump species are called ...

Genes which determine animal complexity – or what makes humans so much more complex than a fruit fly or a sea urchin – have been identified for the first time. The secret mechanism for how a cell in ...

Sexual and kin selection in animals: Female mate choice in rodents / Jörns Fickel and Alexandra Weyrich. Extra-pair paternity and sexual selection / Emmi Schlicht and Bart Kempenaers. Male ...

For all the different kinds of manipulation in our cultural lexicon — from gaslighting to negging — nothing beats good old-fashioned mind control. Like your worst ex, one master of this power is a ...