In most developing tissues, signals called morphogens act like lighthouses, guiding nearby cells toward their fate and ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) ...

Researchers from the Plant Genetics team of the Regional Service for Agri-Food Research and Development of the Principality of Asturias (Serida) have ...

Genomic evidence from 15th-century Bolivian maize reveals similarity to Central Andean maize from Peru, and pre-Inca and Inca-era breeding that enhanced maize development through selection within ...

The global beta thalassemia market is experiencing growth due to rising incidences and increased awareness of this genetic blood disorder. Enhanced diagnostic technologies and a growing number of ...

Almost 40,000 years ago, a juvenile woolly mammoth died in modern-day Siberia. Today, its long-frozen remains have yielded ...

From lessons learned in the pork industry, Marty Ropp shares what it takes to help producers capture more value across the ...

Avalo deploys interpretable machine learning (IML) to develop more climate resilient varieties of crops such as sugarcane and ...

New research suggests Neanderthals didn't face a sudden extinction but were gradually absorbed into the growing human ...

Over time, we have developed - and continue to develop - the traits that help us survive and flourish in the environments ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child ...