Wood warblers, also called New World warblers, are some of the most colorful birds in North America, with more than a hundred ...

People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of "survival of the ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...

Scientists discovered that certain gene changes allow cells to function even when frataxin, the protein lost in Friedreich’s ...

Renowned molecular biologist Yunsun Nam, Ph.D., Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Doris and ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

NYU biologists identified the unique transcriptional machinery that ants use to choose a single scent receptor out of the 500 ...