Tag: genetics

Hibernation might sound like an extreme way of life: Animals gain a lot of weight quickly, then drastically slow their ...

Potato tubers are the result of an ancient hybridisation eventJackie Bale/Getty Images The humble potato, it turns out, is the ...

Deep-sea brittle stars are always on the move. That’s what a new study seems to suggest, anyway, after analyzing thousands ...

In the U.S. alone, seven million people live with Alzheimer’s disease, yet treatment options remain limited. Although cases are expected ...

If you’ve ever struggled to keep up in spin class or wondered why sprint training feels extra brutal, you might ...

New research has revealed that the Norwegian lemming is one of the youngest mammals on Earth. The team found that ...

In a fascinating interview, McCleary opens a window into her experience of life with autistic kids, self-discovery and the challenges of ...

CRISPR (short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) — the genetic equivalent of a word processor — has received ...

Key Takeaways on ALS, or Stephen Hawking's Condition: ALS stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and is also known as Lou ...

What are we learning from the genomes of chimps and other apes?S.Tuengler/inafrica.de/Alamy This is an extract from Our Human Story, ...