American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
Researchers identify a herpesvirus gene persisting in the cells of calves suffering from malignant catarrhal disease.
Double helix celebrates 60; detecting calories without taste; bacteria vs. tumor; perceptual consciousness in babies
Better health care in Gambian villages lead to flip-flopping selection pressures on height and weight.
Genome Biology speaks to a scientist involved in the discovery of the structure of DNA, and asks modern geneticists to highlight the key advances that have followed.
By engineering the genome of E. coli with genes from several sources, scientists have coaxed the microbe to produce diesel-replica hydrocarbons.
One of the surviving UK homes of pioneering but long-overlooked evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace is on the market.
Researchers use bacteria to deliver radiation to shrink pancreatic tumors in mice.
Rodents and fruit flies appear to be able to sense nutrients even when they can’t taste the food they’re eating. Now, researchers are trying to figure out how.
A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.