University researchers uncovered that dipeptides, basic protein building blocks, played a central role in shaping the genetic ...

Learn more about the volcanic island of Nishinoshima and how its frequent eruptions are helping scientists understand how ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.

Researchers have revealed a previously unknown way plants shape their growth in response to light—a breakthrough that could ...

But a new study suggests that these parallels are a bit of an accident, and digits come by re-deploying a genetic network that controls a completely different process: the formation of the cloaca, a ...

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...