January often feels like a month when we should be hibernating, emulating a dormouse or a hedgehog and tucking ourselves up ...

A team of University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers has hatched an innovative project to improve the health of chickens ...

A snapshot of blacktip reef sharks hunting hardyhead silverside fish won the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.

The Professor of Genetics sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss anti-aging research, the wellness industry, and his ...

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has approved the establishment of the Center for Comparative Genomics in animal genetics.

Cranswick, a U.K.-based poultry and pork producer, acquired the entire issued share capital of JSR Genetics Limited from JSR ...

This internal left-right asymmetry is believed to begin at the very early stage of development -- when a tiny embryo is divided into two parts during a process called gastrulation. This process ...

University of Queensland researchers have successfully produced the first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in what they say is a big step towards saving other marsupial species ...

Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty symmetrical. At least on the ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

Scientists at University of Oregon discover one of the oldest known animal sex chromosomes in California two-spot octopus.