Genetics

Animals

Maps show genetic diversity in mammals, amphibians around the world

Maps of genetic diversity within mammal and amphibian species provide a baseline for understanding the effects of human activity and climate change on animals.

Genetics

Zika disrupts cellular processes to impair brain development

Discoveries about how Zika virus slows brain cell development could lead to treatments.

Genetics

Readers question the biology of alcoholism and more

Alcoholism-linked genes, making better corneas and more in reader feedback.

Genetics

Big biological datasets map life’s networks

Expanding from genomics to multi-omics means stretching data capacity, but it may lead to a future of early diagnosis, personalized medicine and hardy crops.

Genetics

‘Three-parent babies’ explained

Several in vitro techniques can produce babies with three biological parents.

Genetics

How gene editing is changing what a lab animal looks like

What makes a good animal model? New techniques bring opportunities and challenges to model organisms.

Animals

Hot and spicy pain signals get blocked in naked mole-rats

Naked mole-rats have a protein that interrupts pain signal.

Animals

Hot and spicy pain signals get blocked in naked mole-rats

Naked mole-rats have a protein that interrupts pain signal.

Genetics

To make female pill bugs, just add bacterial genes

Genes from Wolbachia bacteria infiltrated pill bugs and now make genetic males female.

Genetics

Gene linked to autism in people may influence dog sociability

DNA variants were linked to beagles’ tendency to seek human help.

Genetics

First ‘three-parent baby’ born from nuclear transfer

The first human baby produced through spindle nuclear transfer was born in April, New Scientist reports.

Genetics

New era of human embryo gene editing begins

Gene editing of viable human embryos is happening, in and out of the public eye.