Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Epigenetic changes accrued over an organism’s lifetime may leave a permanent heritable mark on the genome, through the help of long noncoding RNAs.
Scientists unravel the confusing molecular biology behind a fruit fly’s reliance on a single type of cactus.
Many vaccines are on the market for various serogroups of meningococcal disease, but a solution to provide broad protection against MenB remains elusive.
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A Bill of Rights amendment reaffirming the right to pray could have negative consequences for the teaching of evolution.
The root system of a tree species is genetically different than the leaves of that individual, potentially modifying scientists’ understanding of evolution.
Two medical professors contend that the pharmaceutical industry is really suffering from a drive to make only marginal improvements to existing drugs.
Fossils from northern Kenya point to a new human species that lived in Africa nearly 2 million years ago.
Some 85 percent of researchers involved in promoting off-label drug use do not adequately disclose financial conflicts of interest in published articles.