Koalas suffered a massive population decline that left them with dangerously low genetic diversity. However, new genomic research suggests their rapid rebound may be helping reverse some of that ...

If you follow media coverage of koalas, you could be forgiven for feeling confused. Recent stories describe a "koala paradox": endangered in the north of Australia, abundant in the south; genetically ...

[SINGAPORE] The People’s Action Party’s (PAP) tendency to draw many of its candidates from the civil service risks leading to “group-thinking” and “inbreeding”, said Progress Singapore Party (PSP) ...

In recent years, the global prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) has witnessed exponential growth. According to statistics, in 2019, approximately 463 million people worldwide were affected by DM (1).

This study was reported by Qifa Zhang and Yidan Ouyang’ group from the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China. Inbreeding depression is ...

We all understand the concept of inbreeding in human terms – where people who are too genetically similar reproduce, resulting in offspring with deformities. With each inbred generation, the gene pool ...

Blood relations and kinship were not all-important for the way hunter-gatherer communities lived during the Stone Age in Western Europe. A new genetic study, conducted at several well-known French ...

There was a time when purebred dogs were status symbols. Owners would crow about their German Shepherd's or Cocker Spaniel's impeccable pedigrees, sometimes boasting lineages that tread a single line ...

Corn, rice, wheat, sugar cane – the grass family contains a number of species that are important food sources for humans and have been bred and cultivated for millennia. Wild and farm animals, too, ...