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A technique for producing "environmentally friendly" GM crops has been called into question by a study showing how easily alien genes can be transferred around a plant. Scientists have found that ...

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Small, black and red and highly venomous, the thought of a black widow nearby is enough to make most people break out in a cold sweat. But the fearsome reputation could be shared by something ...

A zoo in northern Japan has culled 57 of its snow monkeys by lethal injection after discovering they carried the genes of an "invasive alien species". Takagoyama Nature Zoo in Chiba said DNA testing ...

While preparing a workshop on DNA detection in Oaxaca, Mexico, David Quist found a surprise: an alien gene embedded in a sample of native corn, known as criollo. The alien was actually familiar, a ...

Scientists claim a new map of the octopus genetic code has revealed a creature so strange that it could be an "alien". The creatures have a hugely complicated genome sequence, and have more ...