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Young Cape Dwarf Chameleon (Bradypodion pumilum) shedding its shin. Taken in a garden in Tokai, Cape Province. Image by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY 3.0 https ...

Biologists have revealed genetics behind the alternating sexes of walnut trees. The research reveals a mechanism that has been stable in walnuts and their ancestors going back 40 million years -- and ...

For Cornell University geneticist Heather Huson, soccer and softball games weren’t on the family calendar growing up. Her ...

The role of dairy beef cattle in regenerative farming systems, and obstacles challenging the progress of UK dairy genetics, ...

As the rather odd and chaotic year of 2024 comes to a close, it seems somewhat fitting that the animal science story that ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

The concomitant occurrence of independent antimicrobial resistance mechanisms is a serious threat to human health and has appeared in several emerging epidemic clones over the past decade in humans ...

The genetics behind the alternating sexes of walnut trees have been revealed by biologists at the University of California, ...

Yale scientists studied how the body tolerates cancer-causing mutations in skin stem cells, uncovering a surprising redox ...

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