Akira Kudo at Tokyo Tech and colleagues report in Scientific Reports, December 2016, that live-imaging and transcriptome analysis of medaka fish transgenic lines lead to immediate alteration of cells ...

Space travel in a reduced gravity environment can have lasting effects on the body. For example, researches clearly show that astronauts undergo a significant drop in bone mineral density during space ...

Scientists report that live-imaging and transcriptome analysis of medaka fish transgenic lines lead to immediate alteration of cells responsible for bone structure formation. These findings are ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- New evidence shows commercial fish that have been genetically modified to be larger could drive wild fish populations to extinction, if they escaped into the environment, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The genetic modifications that improve animals for human consumption also could doom populations if released into the wild, according to a Purdue University research team.

William Muir, professor of animal science, and Richard Howard, professor of biology, were funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Biotechnology Risk Assessment Program to develop a method to ...

The experiment by Otake et al. shows the plasticity of homomorphic sex chromosomes and provides direct and convincing support for the high turnover model of sex chromosome evolution in lower ...