In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm. At Michigan Tech, undergraduate students join the quest for new cancer ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Investigators looking to track down Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnappers are turning to a relatively new technology that has been attributed to solving some of the most prolific ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar. The research shows that domestic pig ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

For decades, scientists have theorized that two genetic defects have the potential to essentially “cancel each other out,” restoring normal protein function in the process. A new study confirms this ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1964, Francis Crick—the Nobel Laureate famous for his contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA—and his Cambridge University colleague ...

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In a groundbreaking study published in the in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists at Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) have overturned a long-held belief in ...

Seattle, WA — In a groundbreaking study published in the in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists at Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) have overturned a ...