A Cornell-led study is challenging a decades-old explanation for how chromosomes exchange genetic material within the ...

Since 1970, wildlife populations globally have plummeted by about 73%. One driver is habitat fragmentation that isolates small populations, leading to inbreeding and fewer healthy offspring.

Endangered Pacific pocket mice, native to Southern California, were once thought to be extinct until a tiny remnant population was rediscovered in the mid-1990s. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance ...

Malo, Aurelio F., Martinez-Pastor, Felipe, Alaks, Glen, Dubach, Jean, and Lacy, Robert C. 2010. "Effects of Genetic Captive-Breeding Protocols on Sperm Quality and ...

A US biotech company has genetically modified mice to have traits from the extinct woolly mammoth. Researchers at Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences endowed their mice with the thick, shaggy hair ...