The bacteria steal genetic material from temperate phages during this dormant period ... Ph.D., associate professor of ...

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual selection is where individuals with certain traits have higher reproductive ...

Japanese researchers used a nonviral piggyBac system to genetically modify cynomolgus monkeys, enabling more accurate disease ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

Of course, different genetic systems react differently to such ... occasionally lead to the production of new genes (by pasting material from different genes together). A single mutation can ...

The bacteria steal genetic material from temperate phages during ... Ph.D., associate professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.