For decades, biology has relied on one central assumption: the genetic code is precise. DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is ...

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Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ...

Presence of inherited blindness gene does not guarantee vision loss. Only 28% of carriers develop disease, indicating other ...

Historic climate change influenced northeast India primates’ evolution, distribution, and decline, stressing conservation urgency.

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

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A genetic analysis of polar bears in southeast Greenland found that genes related to heat-stress, aging, and metabolism are ...

Researchers identified the fruitless gene as a key regulator of social begging behaviour in male honeybees. Acting during ...

Undergoing ultraviolet light sessions is as harmful as exposing yourself to the sun without any sunscreen. To understand why ...

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...