The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a ...

Deep within the cells of mice, a genetic arms race is unfolding between X and Y chromosome genes, battling for dominance in sperm. Researchers have now discovered how these gene families compete by ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

In evolutionary terms, fitness is defined as an organism's ability to survive and reproduce its genes into the next ...

Years of research in the field of genetics have offered interesting insights spanning the origins and development of heredity ...

Martin Arlt, Ph.D., associate research scientist in the Department of Human Genetics "If there were ... In the future, the team plans to use the yeast model system to explore the evolution of ...

Researchers have uncovered the mechanism behind the arms race for mouse X and Y bearing sperm to fertilize an egg.

This useful study provides incomplete evidence that TANGO2 homologs, including HRG-9 and HRG-10, are not heme chaperones but play a role in cellular bioenergetics and oxidative stress homeostasis.