You’re enjoying a refreshing strawberry smoothie, its rich red color swirling in the glass, thanks to genetic engineering that enhances the fruit’s hue. Such scenes are no longer rare as genetic ...

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil and often multiplies quickly after oil spills, helping to reduce ...

In a sense, Bates biologist Larissa Williams studies the process of evolution as it happens ... and statistical geneticist Carlos Bustamente, to relate genetic variations to such factors as pollution ...

leading to genetic pollution. The risk is especially great when crops meant for human consumption are grown near crops altered and grown for specialized pharmaceutical needs. This process ...

But they did find that exposed workers' DNA was damaged by a slowed rate of "methylation," a biological process in which genes ... to sustain this kind of genetic damage, Baccarelli added.

“The huge population sizes of Gulf killifish allow them to retain a large amount of genetic variation. “However, under radical pollution pressure, the ultimate solution was not their own ...

Air pollution led to genetic changes that may have sapped learning skills in children whose mothers were exposed to a Chinese coal-fired power plant before it was shuttered a decade ago ...

The study suggests that environmental factors, particularly air pollution, along with genetic predisposition and immune responses, may be driving this rise in non-smoking-related lung cancer.

A genetic predisposition for depression combined with exposure to high-particulate-matter air pollution greatly elevates the risk that healthy people will experience depression, according to a ...