A team of international scientists, mainly from China and the United Kingdom, has jointly identified the genetic variants ...

As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines ...

Research published in the journal Human Reproduction reveals that women with endometriosis are at a significantly higher risk ...

The discovery of the genetic variants underlying these traits sheds light on the ‘inherited factors’ that Mendel proposed and how they shape biological differences. Bacterial resistance to ...

Along with Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, and others, Mayr achieved the "modern synthesis" in the 1930s and 1940s that integrated Mendel's theory of heredity with Darwin's theory ...

Developments in genetic technologies which have made them cheaper, quicker and easier to use could usher in a new age of biology. We have been using conventional cross-breeding to select genetic ...

Synthetic biology' is a research field that assigns new functions to organisms by leveraging natural and synthetic genetic regulatory tools. Organisms engineered through synthetic biology can be ...

Biochemistry emerged as a separate discipline when scientists combined biology with organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry. They began to study areas such as: How living things get energy from ...

But research has recently confirmed its biological relevance. So-called Z-DNA is now thought to play roles in cancer and autoimmune diseases, and last year scientists confirmed its link to three ...