A new BMC Biology study shows that chromosomal inversions in Anopheles mosquitoes reshape 3D genome folding and rewire ...
A study of Trinidadian guppies finds that ancient chromosomal inversions, some millions of years old, are maintained by ...
For decades, cancer research has focused heavily on genetic mutations, but another theory argues that abnormal chromosome numbers may play a much bigger role than previously recognized. The idea dates ...
Somiya Adrees is a writer at GameRant. Her gaming journey began at a young age with classics like Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge (all of which she ...
Newswise — Most plant genome assemblies are haploid representations—they collapse two distinct parental chromosomes into a single, chimeric sequence. For highly heterozygous, clonally propagated crops ...
A large number of genomic and transcriptomic datasets have revealed valuable insights into the biology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Wang et al. produced a complementary resource by mapping 100 ...
I teach a university course called Hormones and Behaviour. What surprises students is that biological sex is not produced by a single switch. What surprises me is that many students have never been ...
You are what you eat, but what happens to those calories after you eat may depend more on your genes than you think. To find the gene, scientists sequenced the coding DNA of more than a million people ...
“Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund” by Molly Crabapple. Random House, NY (2026) Rummaging through her great-grandfather’s obscure past, Molly Crabapple transports herself ...
In simple terms: a mutation is a stable change in genetic sequence that can be copied when cells or viruses replicate. Most mutations have no detectable effect, some contribute to disease, and a small ...
Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...
Clones had mutations triple the rate of normal mice By the 58th generation, clones died within days of birth 1,206 cloned mice were generated from 2005 to 2025 Clones pass all their defective genes to ...