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After 10 years in development, a novel mouse population proves its mettle in complex trait research.
Despite suggestions to the contrary, the Y chromosome is not necessarily rotting away.
Fruit flies consume alcohol to kill off parasites.
Designing the simplest possible living organism artificially may lend clues as to what life is.
Research in yeast shows that aneuploidy is both a consequence of and an adaptation to stress.
Populations of organisms acquire beneficial traits repeatedly and rapidly through co-evolution with other species and through gene interaction.
Using an artificial selection paradigm, researchers watch as unicellular yeast evolve into snowflake-like clusters with distinct multicellular characteristics.
Two new sequencing machines will read a human genome in 24 hours.
For the first time, researchers culture a bacteria that uses a magnetic sulfide compound to navigate.