Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

Neuroscience rarely enjoys clean experiments. Most brain disorders are mosaics of risk genes, aging, lifestyle and chance that leave their origins obscured. Huntington's disease (HD) is different. It ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests.

Once a defining tree of eastern forests, the American chestnut was nearly erased by a foreign fungus within a few human generations. A genetically engineered line known as Darling 54 has now pushed ...

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

We call it "getting away from it all," but for 100 years, isolated colonies have proven that the human brain wasn't built for the "Fixed Horizon." Discover why the "120-Day Limit" turns every island ...

A University of Michigan study used AI to create a digital twin replica of gliomas to shed light on the metabolic pathways activated by brain tumors.

In the animal kingdom, doting dads are scarce: Research shows as few as 3 to 5 percent of mammal fathers take an active role in parenting their offspring. But why some seem more geared toward ...

Some lobster mothers produce offspring that are far more likely to survive—in findings that could help safeguard lobster ...

Larvae of the silk moth tend to live longer lives if they have higher levels of an enzyme known as NAD+.