The diversity of facial shapes in birds and mammals is due to variations in non-coding DNA sequences Same genes, different ...

Professor Indraneel Mittra and his team show that DNA fragments from dying cells function as agents of horizontal gene transfer in mammalian cells. For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can ...

Shapes of beaks and snouts come in an extraordinary range of forms, reflecting adaptations to different lifestyles and ...

Epigenetics is rewriting what we know about how our genes work, adapt, and sometimes fail. From chemical tags that switch genes on or off to RNA molecules that fine-tune expression, scientists are ...