When a species reproduces, typically, each parent passes on one of their two versions (alleles) of a given gene to their ...

Sperm are the most diverse and rapidly evolving cell type. Why sperm have undergone ... have spent decades studying the mating biology of fruit flies. These small and outwardly unremarkable ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila ... to offspring during cell division and reproduction. Cells divide to form eggs and sperm in a process called ...

Because cells naturally repair nicks, the researchers hypothesized that CRISPR-Nickase could be an efficient way to edit single copies of a gene. In research published by other scientists, Nickase has ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in Drosophila that distorts inheritance in both sperm and eggs, revealing ...

Scientists first discovered chromosomes in the nineteenth century, when they were gazing at cells through light ... several experiments with fruit flies provided the first evidence.

While Alzheimer's disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body.