GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Mutations are the key to making your fortune in Grow A Garden. Each one makes plants more valuable, while pets gain the ability to convert plants or ...

Researchers are adding new evidence to the emerging concept that 'silent' or synonymous mutations may have crucial consequences. Their study showed how a synonymous mutation in one gene can ...

A variety of genetic diseases are caused by ‘nonsense’ mutations that change a sense codon to a premature termination codon (PTC), causing early termination of protein synthesis. Nonsense suppression, ...

On a fine gray afternoon in late October, I came across an impressive cone midden beneath a towering red spruce. While it was surely the work of an industrious squirrel — perhaps a family, given the ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...

Most clinicians still underestimate the degree to which genetic factors shape personality traits and personality development. This is not controversial within behavioral genetics, but it remains ...

LAS VEGAS — Former Arizona basketball standout Richard Jefferson and softball star Jennie Finch will represent the Wildcats in the first-ever Big 12 Alumni Council, the conference announced on ...