A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands ...

Due to the genetic uniformity within bed bug infestations resulting from extensive inbreeding, one specimen per sample is generally representative of that population. But Booth wanted to make sure ...

This DNA has suffered a mutation, either through mis-copying (when its parent cell divided), or through the damaging effects of exposure to radiation or a chemical carcinogen.

finally teased out the genetic explanation. Resistant individuals had in their cells two copies of a mutation that disrupted the entryway through which HIV viruses entered white blood cells.

A single base change can create a devastating genetic disorder or a beneficial adaptation, or it might have no effect. How do mutations happen, and how do they influence the future of a species?

A global infestation of bed bugs after World War II was nearly eradicated in the 1950s with the use of the pesticide dichloro ...