About 400 years ago, a cross between cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc gave birth to cabernet sauvignon. Today, cabernet ...

Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

There are two typical paths to drug discovery. The first is serendipity — sometimes researchers simply get lucky and find compounds that happen to work. Although such fortunate accidents have led to ...

A study in Australia ran a computer simulation that showed how assortative mating (the preference for romantic partners ...

With the advent of molecular cytogenetic techniques, such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), it became possible to more precisely define the extent and the actual DNA sequences involved in ...