Advances in forensic science are helping to recover invisible fingerprints and identify missing people from bits of tissue or bone.
A variant of a gene involved in hair-shaft formation was linked to most of the uncombable-hair-syndrome cases analyzed in a recent study.
Svante Pääbo figured out how to examine the genetic material from these hominid ‘cousins’ of modern humans.
The genomes of salamanders are bloated with genetic “parasites.” That extra DNA slows down their lives and strands them in perpetual childhood.
Rats have lived alongside people for thousands of years. Now, scientists can study the rats and their leavings to learn more about ourselves.
Short for deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA is the molecule that determines how each living thing looks and works.
Many people associate dog breeds with specific behavioral traits. But breed appears to account for only about 9 percent of behavioral differences.
Loss of 13 genes active in other bats could support the vampires’ blood-eating strategies and adaptations.
By tampering with genes involved in vision, a virus can send caterpillars on a doomed quest for sunlight.