For example, the canine gene ADD2 was associated with fear of strangers, but in humans was related to depression. A key ...

Did you know that traits in animal species can re-appear in a new generation hundreds of years later? These ancient ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

EVE is a deep generative model combining evolutionary and human population data to estimate variant deleteriousness on a proteome-wide scale.

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

"The findings are really striking – they provide strong evidence that humans and golden retrievers have shared genetic roots ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly ...

Engineers, like evolution, are tinkerers. Few vehicles showcase how one car can spread into multiple roles quite like ...

The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest ...