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The genes behind your fingerprints just got weirder
The whorls, arches, and loops on your fingertips can say a lot about your early development.
Good news for lychee lovers: There may be a way to grow the fruits year-round
Lychee has a short peak season in the summer. But a missing chunk of DNA could help shift growing periods to different times of the year.
How do you track a salmonella outbreak? A data journalist followed the DNA trail to slaughterhouses.
Even CDC experts agreed that this new method using genomics works.
Animals have an internal ‘GPS’ that tells body parts where to grow
The Waze-like system is hundreds of millions of years old.
Some people have a gene that could make COVID far more deadly
Kids are getting COVID-19 pricks, people are getting out their passports, and vaccination requirements are working.
The protein that keeps worker ants in line can also make them queen
Ant royalty can be made with the flip of a genetic switch.
Scientists can now tell if you had a ‘vanishing’ twin in the womb
New research hints at why some twins are identical.
Is it ok to eat GMO foods? Scientists say ‘yes.’
Human health-wise, they’re perfectly fine.
This CRISPR startup thinks that mammoths can save the Arctic. Is it right?
A new company co-founded by gene-editing pioneer George Church wants to disrupt climate change and conservation by resurrecting the woolly mammoth.
5 reasons you can’t sleep
We face many obstacles in our search for shut-eye, from bad beds to faulty genes. Fortunately, wrapping our heads around what keeps us awake can help us catch those z’s.
