Inbreeding of dogs can lead to blindness, deafness, and genetic diseases. Learn how it impacts generations of dogs and what ethical breeders do to prevent it.

A new study published in the American Journal of Human Biology has uncovered a significant relationship between family intermarriage and later-life outcomes in one of Europe’s most influential royal ...

Close inbreeding can be a hit-and-miss technique, but close inbreeding was an "in" factor for several horses who featured prominently in the two most valuable events at Fair Grounds Race Course ...

One of Britain's foremost experts on child health has defended the right for first cousins to marry and dismissed concerns about inbreeding. Professor Dominic Wilkinson, an NHS neonatologist and ...

A study published last month (February 24) in Current Biology finds that death, dispersals, and an unknown innate strategy help wild baboons avoid inbreeding. But the animals do sometimes mate with ...

It is a failed state. And, by the way, speaking of the 68 IQ, one of the reasons -- I mean, undoubtedly, one of the reasons for that IQ is the inbreeding in the country. There's a lot of ...

This study achieved CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), China's most economically vital freshwater fish. Targeting the tyrb gene critical for pigmentation were ...

Inbreeding or chlamydia? It’s an impossible situation. But it’s a situation that koalas are facing in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, where low levels of genetic diversity are threatening one of the ...