Organisms with unusual genomes are helping scientists investigate gene regulation, evolution, and development.

Fly avatars bearing multiple genetic changes akin to those of a cancer patient lead to a tailor-made treatment that has shrunk the patient’s tumors.

An unusual population of immune cells appears to exist in zebrafish as well as mammals.

Tools for studying how cancer spreads

The domination of model organisms and charismatic megafauna in the literature is a disservice to the life sciences.

Mitochondrial DNA polymerase is necessary for the destruction of paternal mtDNA in fruit fly sperm, scientists show.

Some scientists hope to replace microbiology’s workhorse bacterium with fast-growing Vibrio natriegens.

Why can science still not define this most basic biological process?

Replacing yeast genes with their human equivalents reveals functional conservation despite a billion years of divergent evolution.