Genetics and Evolution

What is microRNA and What Does It Do?

The Role of the SRY Gene in Sex Determination

Dwarf Elephant: The Real-Life Cyclops of the Ice Age

What Is Epigenetics and How Does It Control Your Genes?

What Is Incomplete Penetrance and Why Does It Occur?

What Does Overturning a Legal Precedent Mean?

How a COMT Gene Mutation Affects Your Health

PTEN Gene: Function, Mutations, and Health Risks

What Is Parthenogenesis? Asexual Reproduction in Animals

Haikouichthys: A Key Ancestor in Vertebrate Evolution

Evolutionary Theory: Mechanisms, Evidence, and History

What Is Survivability? The Biology of Staying Alive

Nucleotide Excision Repair: How Cells Fix Damaged DNA

2-deoxy-d-ribose: Its Role, Synthesis, and Applications

What Was the First Life on Earth & How Did It Begin?

What Is Telegony and Is There Any Truth to the Theory?

Moros Intrepidus: A Tiny Ancestor of the T. Rex

Positive Selection: The Engine of Adaptation

Blind Fish: Adapting to a World Without Light

What Is Heterochromatin and Its Role in the Cell?