Biomedical scientists around the world publish around 1 million new papers a year. But a staggering number of these cannot be ...

To reproduce, animals need a male and female. Together they can create offspring, or babies. Some animals, such as chickens, fish and snakes, lay eggs which contain their offspring. Other animals ...

Birds do it, and bees do it. Indeed, researchers estimate that over 99.9% of eukaryotes reproduce sexually. What, then, are the true costs and benefits of sex? Yet again, this simple example ...

At the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute in London, Japanese researcher Katsuhiko Hayashi stunned attendees when he explained ...

When her species needs replenishing, what’s a mother dragon to do? She can reproduce the old-fashioned way, by mating with a male and laying eggs. Or she can lay eggs without having mated ...