Tag: genetics
Modern tomatoes are very different from their wild ancestors – and...
Hamid Razifard, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Ana Caicedo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Not all genes are necessary for survival – these species dropped...
Jessica M. Velez, University of Tennessee; Alison Gerken, Kansas State University, and Amey Redkar, Universidad de Córdoba
Humans, the latest tally suggests, have approximately 21,000...
Why Bill Maher is wrong about fat-shaming
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
On a recent episode of his Friday evening talk show, Bill Maher proposed that society combat obesity by body-shaming overweight individuals....
Sequencing the white shark genome is cool, but for bigger insights...
Gavin Naylor, University of Florida
The headlines are eye-catching: Scientists have sequenced the genome of white sharks. Or the bamboo lemur, or the golden eagle....
Can Seabiscuit’s DNA explain his elite racing ability?
Steven Tammariello, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Seabiscuit was not an impressive-looking horse. He was considered quite lazy, preferring to eat and sleep...
Recreational ancestry DNA testing may reveal more than consumers bargained for
Catharine Wang, Boston University
Aggressive marketing techniques and the popularization of “gifting” recreational ancestry tests has led more consumers than ever to the world of...
Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions...
Katherine L. Petrie, University of California San Diego and Justin Meyer, University of California San Diego
Evolutionary biologists like us try to figure out how...
Editing human embryos with CRISPR is moving ahead – now’s the...
Jessica Berg, Case Western Reserve University
The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they’ve successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took...
EXPLORING NATURE
3 years after abortion rights were overturned, contraception access is at risk
Cynthia H. Chuang, Penn State and Carol S. Weisman, Penn State
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court...
