Parasitic worms can cause huge damage by infecting humans and livestock, but the effectiveness of drugs commonly used against them is waning due to increasing… Read more »
How much do you think you know about the great Nanook of the Arctic? Test your polar bear savvy in our International Polar Bear Day quiz compiled by editorial staff… Read more »
At the start of the year, I was thinking about the conferences I attended last year. One highlight was Genome Informatics, which I went to in September, on behalf of… Read more »
On this World Whale Day, we’ve been diving deep into the archives to find our most interesting research on our aquatic friends.… Read more »
A debate on the above question is important because the Australian Government policy considers dingoes as a feral, allowing the… Read more »
Recently published research in Genome Biology identifies several new CRISPR-Cas12a loci, a type of CRISPR-Cas system for editing… Read more »
“Pigs are so compelling, so mysterious, so contradictory – finicky yet fat, massive yet dainty, stolid yet smart. We can’t… Read more »
In human societies, the answer to the above question may be a resolute never, but not all animals play by the same rules. In fact,… Read more »
Parts of human DNA are of viral origin: many of them were inserted into the primordial genetic material of our ancestors many… Read more »
For more than ten years African swine fever (ASF) has been spreading in Eurasia, currently expanding its territory both west- and… Read more »