Sex-biased gene expression in the body organs evolves rapidly, supporting a mosaic model of maleness and femaleness across tissues and thus challenging binary views of sex characteristics in mammals.

Also, there’s still no easy way to test AI designs of larger genomes. While some viruses can ‘boot up’ just from a DNA strand ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function.

It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of birds that includes African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, New Zealand kiwis and South American rheas ...

Colossal Biosciences achieves world-first in avian genetics, raising $120M to accelerate dodo de-extinction project. CEO Ben ...

Scientists at UCL have demonstrated how ribonucleic acid and amino acids could have spontaneously linked together four ...

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

Scientists are looking for the 'dark matter' of the animal kingdom — and it’s revealing how little we know about life on our ...

Several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes that have previously been ...