A team of researchers led by Professor Joseph Heitman has discovered procreation between genetically identical fungi Cryptococcus neoformans can result in genetic changes and diversity in their ...

C. neoformans has two mating types, a and α, although more than 99% of all isolates are of the α-type. When the hypersexual XL280α strain is grown on mating-inducing media, it frequently reproduces by ...

This study is led by Prof. Jian-Fang Gui (Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Polyploidy is generally thought to be a main driving force of speciation, as the polyploids possess ...

A team of scientists created a bi-paternal mouse through targeted imprinting gene edits in embryonic stem cells. This demonstrates the potential for overcoming barriers to unisexual mammalian ...

A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School claim the stem cell line created by Korea's disgraced veterinarian Hwang Woo-suk was generated via unisexual reproduction, not cloning. The team, ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...