In a Paris laboratory, Alba the albino rustles and sniffs. She is gloriously white and plump, her ears long and supple. Granted, she is just one experimental bunny among many, her beauty obscured by ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding maternal control and activating its own genetic program. This critical process, ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...