Building a chromosome from scratch may sound like science fiction, but scientists have actually done it-and made it work. In ...

Two new studies found that a small, missing piece of DNA located next to a specific protein resulted in orange fur coloration ...

The lost link in a gene called ARHGAP36 makes it so that the cells in orange felines produce lighter colors for their skin, eyes, and fur tone. In ginger cats’ melanocytes, the cells responsible for ...

It could be a major reason why females tend to have longer lifespans. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

What makes orange cats orange? For over 60 years, scientists have been searching for the answer. Researchers from Japan have ...

Any male cat with the mutation dubbed “sex-linked orange” will be entirely orange due to a random deletion of a section of ...

Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London and Linköping University in Sweden have discovered how cells prevent ...

About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring amino—the same kind that astronomers have found in meteorites ...