Here's an interesting project. Quebecois artist Ulric Collette (shown above, with his cousin Justine) explores the facial similarity of relatives by mashing their faces together into one portrait. The Genetic Portraits s...

Research into why Transylvanian naked neck chickens have naked necks reveals a complex balance between genes and chemicals that produce a bird's (not just chickens) feather pattern while it is still an embryo in an egg....

Why do siblings - despite having much of the same genes and upbringing - grow up to be have such different personalities? NPR's Alix Spiegel explores:Then in the 1980s, a researcher named Robert Plomin published a surpri...

A genetic study of Icelandic natives found a genet...  ...d to the Americas," said Agnar Helgason of deCODE Genetics and the University of Iceland, who co-wrote the s...

Researchers at the University of Bonn have found that people with a certain gene are more likely to be altruistic. The researchers took a genetic sample from study participants, and then asked them to participate in a q...

Poet Christian Bök plans to alter the DNA of a particular species of bacteria so that it reflects an encoded version of his poetry: Canadian poet Christian Bök wants his work to live on after he’s gone. Like, bill...

(YouTube Link) Okay, I made up the last bit. But these fish have been altered to grow far more muscular than normal trout: The bodybuilder stature of the trout comes from turning off myostatin, a protein that norm...

Scientists at the International Cancer Genome Consortium assert that they have genetically decoded lung and skin cancer. This will allow the development of drugs that specifically attack cancer at the genetic level beca...

Medical researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, altered a single gene in female mice. The mice did not change anatomically, but their ovaries began producing testosterone: The...

National Geographic video link. Last year Neatorama offered a link to a Telegraph article about a remote Brazilian village with, in Miss Cellania's words, a "bazillion Brazilian" twins.  Now Candido Godol will be the...