Their study, published in Aquaculture Reports, highlights a significant issue of genetic homogeneity among farmed cultivars of Saccharina japonica across China.. This problem was first identified ...

How did horses become some of the greatest athletes in the animal kingdom? Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine may have found the answer, pinpointing a genetic mutation and evolutionary process that ...

This mechanism demonstrates how a mutation can redirect a genetic function toward an evolutionary advantage. This recoding is made possible by specific modifications in messenger RNA, which translates ...

A genetic change that boosts a cell's aerobic capacity while also protecting it from excess stress could explain how horses became such powerful athletes, according to a new study in Science.

The genetic switch that 'really lets horses have their cake and eat it too.’ Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Search for: ...

That's how this ewe was detected, with H5 antibodies in her blood and genetic material from the virus in her milk. Fortunately, all the other sheep on the farm were negative, but the animal was ...

In 1950, horses made an average of 10.9 starts per year in the United States. That number stayed above 10 until 1975. By 2000, it was down to 7.1 starts per year, and in 2023, it went down to 5.9.

TOULOUSE, FRANCE—According to a Science News report, molecular archaeologist Ludovic Orlando and his colleagues analyzed the genomes of 475 ancient horses and 77 modern ones. The oldest remains ...

Horse power may have revved up about four millennia ago. Horses were domesticated at least twice, researchers report June 6 in Nature.Genetic data suggest Botai hunter-gatherers in Central Asia ...

This type of genetic testing has been used in the research world for almost 20 years, and the first broad examination of global horse breeds using genetic ancestry analysis and a large set of genetic ...