Bizarre changes in animal behaviour and appearance have unfolded at the highly reactive Chernobyl site in the 40 years since ...

Wild animals have free range around northern Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which spread radiation throughout the region in 1986. Studies have ...

Genetic editing is an invaluable tool in biomedical research. Scientists have been able to engineer the genomes of a variety of animals, including fruit flies, zebrafish, and mice, to model diseases ...

Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found. By Apoorva Mandavilli Elephant seals in South America died in massive numbers ...

Barley grown in Scandinavian countries is adapted in a similar way to reindeer to cope with the extremes of day length at high latitudes. Researchers have found a genetic mutation in some Scandinavian ...

AMES, Iowa – Animal science researchers at Iowa State University have identified a pair of genetic mutations that cause immune deficiencies in pigs that make them uniquely good models for testing ...

Researchers at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital have developed a promising new immunotherapy targeting the CTNNB1 gene mutation associated with various aggressive cancers like lung ...

A team of researchers has adapted engineered virus-like particles (eVLPs)—that they had previously designed to carry base editors—to deliver prime editors to cells in mice at a high enough efficiency ...