What did the suspect look like? With the d...  ...Link | The study over at PLoS Genetics

In 1955, geneticist Helen Spurway discovered the phenomenon known as parthenogenisis: how some species procreate without a male. Spurway was studying guppies, but wanted to know if parthenogenisis, or "virgin birth," hap...

Meet Ian Kinnaird, 72, who turned out to be the grandfather of everyone in Britain. Genetically speaking, that is: Ian Kinnaird, 72, has a genetic marker inherited from his mother...

The eye is so useful that it evolved multiple times, so perhaps blondes just more fun that blond hair also evolved more: That's my theory and I'm sticking by it. Well, at least the se...

The best dairy Holstein in the U.S. is not even a...  ...housands more are to follow. It's all a matter of genetics . Dairy industry experts crunched the data on this...

What hath science wrought?! If geneticists can create fish that are bioluminescent under black light, then it's not much of a leap to make sushi that glows. Zach Denfeld and Cat Kramer of the Center for Genomic Gastronom...

For more than two centuries, the Fugate family has lived near Troublesome Creek in eastern Kentucky. Many of them, in the past, were blue. Yes, blue. As a result of inbreeding, the combination of a recessive trait caused...

From Secretariat to Seabiscuit,...  ...from 12 historically famous stallions. Modern genetics have become sophisticated enough that...

Scientists discovered that people who need only a few hours of sleep each night before waking up refreshed and full of energy (no coffee required!) owe this ability to a single gene:...

Two mice meet in a narrow plastic tube that's not wide enough for both of them. That sounds like the opening of a really bad science joke, but stick with me. The punchline is downright amazing:...