The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the ...

Can a single protein-encoding gene determine whether a vertebrate embryo develops normally? Yes, according to Osaka ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts.

It's sometimes easy to forget that molecular biological research was somehow being done before nucleic acid hybridization was commonplace, even before the dawn of the Southern blot. This isn't to ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. For a creature that’s less than one and a half inches long, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) looms large in biomedical ...

Even non-scientific Israelis recognize the term “mRNA” (messenger RNA) from the COVID-19 vaccines that they allowed nurses to inject many times into their arms. Molecular biologists refer to ...

The effects of antidepressant exposure during early development can pass down through three generations of offspring—at least in zebrafish. A new study, published today (December 10) in PNAS, reveals ...

A preserved duck, chicken or quail egg aged in a mix of clay, ash and salt for months until the whites turn black and the ...