A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.
A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.
A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Age: 38
With persistence and pluck, Leslie Vosshall managed to snatch insect odorant receptors from the jaws of experimental defeat.
Contrary to existing dogma, colon cancer cell mitochondria carry fewer mutations than mitochondria of normal body cells.
In pondering genome structure and function, evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst has arrived at some unanticipated conclusions about how natural selection has molded our DNA.
Researchers find organisms with huge genomes with high mutation rates, overturning a common expectation in evolutionary biology.
A guided tour through the main online resources for analyzing cancer genomics data
Irradiated sperm of young male mice induce mutations in eggs upon fertilization, a phenomenon that may pose risks for the children of cancer survivors.
For nematode worms, a bigger stress response means a healthier, longer life, but fewer babies.