Genetic clues may help explain why sloths live at such a low gear. In a new study, researchers linked the animals' extremely ...

Findings suggest that new genes can form by repurposing fragments of ancestral genes while incorporating entirely new coding regions (the protein-coding parts of the DNA). This innovative concept ...

Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

A team at the University of Rochester transferred a single gene from naked mole rats into ordinary laboratory mice, and the ...

Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism, yet the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms behind it remain largely ...

The Southern Ocean—vast, boundless waters surrounding Antarctica—plays an outsized role in global climate, largely thanks to tiny drifting organisms called plankton that soak up carbon. Reporting in ...

Whole-exome sequencing revealed variants in a gene that compromise connective tissue integrity and may increase a person’s ...

Graft a patch of skin from one wild cheetah onto another, unrelated cheetah, and the recipient’s body will not reject it.

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