Genetics News

How can a tiny spider body contain material for several decimeters of gossamer silk, and what governs the conversion to thread? Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Sweden can now explain this process

Researchers in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Thomas Jefferson University have found that the level of a single protein in the tiny roundworm C. elegans determines how long it lives

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered the gene that enables an extraordinary worm to regenerate its own body parts after amputation -- including a whole head and brain

A team of researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in the development of nanotubes -- tiny "magic bullets"

The vivid colors and designs animals use to interact with their environments have awed and inspired since before people learned to draw on the cave wall

A nanometer-scale probe designed to slip into a cell wall and fuse with it could offer researchers a portal for extended eavesdropping on the inner electrical activity of individual cells

DNA from a finger bone of a female found in southern Siberia.reveals a previously unknown human species, which lived about 48,000 to 30,000 years ago in the Altai Mountains in Central Asia

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have discovered a previously unknown cellular "switch" that may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death, findings with implications for treating cancer

A genetic study has found that small domestic dogs probably originated in the Middle East more than 12,000 years ago

In a world first an international team of researchers, led by Dr Michael Bunce of Murdoch University, have successfully isolated ancient DNA from fossil eggshell remains of extinct birds