Are honey bees on the decline?
Anthony Nearman, a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, discovered something unexpected while testing...
Can genes predict how severe your COVID-19 case would be?
A type of coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, causes the disease called COVID-19. This disease has...
Some identical twins don’t have identical DNA
Identical twins may not be carbon copies at the DNA level after all. On average,...
Plague may have caused die-offs of ancient Siberians
Ancient people brought the plague to Siberia by about 4,400 years ago, which may have...
A key to the mystery of fast-evolving genes was found in ‘junk DNA’
A long-standing puzzle in evolution is why new genes — ones that seem to arise...
Penicillin allergies may be linked to one immune system gene
Penicillin, effective against many bacterial infections, is often a first-line antibiotic. Yet it is also...
Gene-editing tool CRISPR wins the chemistry Nobel
Turning a bacterial defense mechanism into one of the most powerful tools in genetics has...