A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- Researchers are near completion of a rough map of the cattle genome, an achievement scientists say could eventually help breed healthier cows that produce more milk and the ...

What does the genome do? You might have heard that it is a blueprint for an organism. Or that it’s a bit like a recipe. But building an organism is much more complex than constructing a house or ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Scientists have sequenced the largest genome of all animals, the lungfish genome. Their data help to explain how the fish-ancestors of today's land vertebrates were able to conquer land. Thirty times ...

Ever since I first learned about the devastating disease killing frogs worldwide, I knew I wanted to be part of the solution. In the 1980s, mysterious die-offs started occurring in frogs in Australia ...