The decline of a population of Arctic foxes isolated on a small Russian island may be due to mercury pollution from their diet of seabirds and seals.
The decline of a population of Arctic foxes isolated on a small Russian island may be due to mercury pollution from their diet of seabirds and seals.
Genetic material recovered from sediment beneath the sea floor reveals ancient species not contained in the fossil record and could shed light on climate change.
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
As telomeres shorten with age, genes as far as 1,000 kilobases away could be affected, including one responsible for an inherited muscle disease.
The names and addresses of people participating in the Personal Genome Project can be easily tracked down despite such data being left off their online profiles.
Scientists create biocompatible, self-luminescing nanoparticles for in vivo imaging.
One, two, three, four . . . . Counting colonies and plaques can be tedious, but tools exist to streamline the process.
Libyan scientists, soon to be trained in countries around the world, are undertaking a massive search mission to find missing loved ones among thousands of dead bodies, casualties of the country’s recent popular revolution.
Sorting out T-cell functional and phenotypic heterogeneity depends on studying single cells.
NIH researcher Roberto Romero describes the recent discovery of genetic elemetns that contribute to the risk of preterm birth.