Certain dogs carry a genetic mutation that not only heightens their love for food but also results in a lower calorie-burning rate, making them “hardwired” for obesity. The Labrador retriever has been ...

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Ringo, a golden retriever born in 2003 in a Brazilian kennel, was never expected to live long. Researchers bred him and his littermates to inherit a gene mutation that causes severe muscular dystrophy ...

There’s something about dogs that truly makes them man’s best friend. Our loyal, slobbering pets rescue those in need and are extremely social, but until Wednesday we never figured out why dogs and ...

Recently, studies of somatic cancer genetics have tended to focus on the conditions that may be favorable to tumor growth, rather than on the forces and processes that directly promote tumorigenesis.