Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep insights into the limits of biological endurance.

In most plants and animals, including humans, mitochondria are inherited exclusively, or nearly exclusively, from the mother.

In Lake Malawi, hundreds of species of cichlid fish have evolved with astonishing speed, offering scientists a rare opportunity to study how biodiversity arises.

Amazon mollies don't need a man, and never will. A new study finds they can purge and repair genetic mutations that would ...

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A research team from London examined the relationship between adenovirus-associated virus (AAV)-based vectors and liver ...

A new study shows that plants can inherit mitochondria from their father, restoring fertility when maternal mitochondria are ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic bacteriophages that could help with future clinical development of phage ...

Discover the molecular mechanisms behind severe blood clots linked to specific COVID-19 vaccines, revealing crucial insights for future vaccine safety.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP) have now discovered how mitochondria can be inherited from the father in plants. Crucially, this paternal transmission ...

The biological necessity of the Y chromosome is undergoing a fundamental reassessment as evidence confirms its disappearance ...

Koalas’ population comeback may be doing more than boosting numbers—it could also be rebuilding their lost genetic diversity.