The topic of 'Heredity' in Class 10 Science (Biology) is an important part of the Science subject and can be that one chapter ...

Genetics aren't necessarily destiny for those with mutations thought to always cause inherited blindness, a new study says. Fewer than 30% of people with these genetic variants wind up blind, even ...

Guyana stands at an economic crossroads amid a historic oil boom, yet the challenges it faces reflect the cautionary lessons detailed in Ray Dalio’s book, “How Countries Go Broke.” Dalio’s analysis of ...

Mingyuan Zhu, Ph.D., and Bo Zhou, Ph.D. have joined the Texas A&M Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics as assistant professors and Roop Fatima Jaffri, Ph.D., as a lecturer. Zhu will focus on ...

This paper presents some of the recent challenges to the Modern Synthesis of evolutionary theory, which has dominated evolutionary thinking for the last sixty years. The focus of the paper is the ...

New research in C. elegans from scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) helps explain how changes in the parents’ lysosomes that promote longevity are transferred to their offspring.

Sex is important. Romantic, typically sexual, partnerships are often among the most central relationships in individuals’ lives, providing a host of personal, health, social and economic benefits. But ...

This important study offers a powerful empirical test of a highly influential hypothesis in population genetics. It incorporates a large number of animal genomes spanning a broad phylogenetic spectrum ...

All of the different plants on Earth—from mango trees to marigolds—have come about thanks to the simple rules of genetic inheritance, which determine how traits are passed on from one generation to ...

Formulation characteristics can explain much of the observed variation in benzene levels of over-the-counter benzoyl peroxide-containing products. HealthDay News — Formulation characteristics can ...

ABSTRACT: The Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) is a disease-resistant, high-productivity bird. It has few breeding constraints. A phenotypic characterization study of the Japanese quail was carried ...