Dogs experience highs and lows just like their owners and their emotions could be influenced by the same genes as humans, new research suggests. For example, the gene called HUNK was found to make ...

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After 13 years, Indonesian conservationist finds one of the world’s rarest flowers—it steals genes and smells like rotten flesh.

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

In a study published in Genome Research, a team of researchers, including Cornell College Assistant Professor of Biology ...

A US clinic is offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like height and intelligence to "genetically optimise" their future babies on top of the usual screenings for hereditary diseases.

Analysis of more than one million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

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There are few hard and fast rules in the study of life, but perhaps the closest we get is the central dogma of molecular biology: DNA is transcribed to RNA, which gets translated into proteins. The ...

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