A "Jeopardy!" show recently asked what animal had the most chromosomes. This month's River Life column tells us more about answer: the hermit crab.

After the invention of whole-genome sequencing, we now know the sequences that make up an entire organism. Now what do they mean? To answer that, we turn back to linkage mapping in model organisms.

But how did they figure out what chromosomes do? And how did they link chromosomes — and the specific genes within them — to the concept of inheritance? After a long period of observational ...

Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London and Linköping University in Sweden have discovered how cells prevent ...