Few science books are name-dropped more often, or understood less, than Richard Dawkins's 'The Selfish Gene'. The title alone has persuaded half a century of readers that its author set out to prove ...

New research is shining a light on one of genetics' enduring puzzles—how the workings of the so-called "selfish gene" could be harnessed to control harmful insect populations. By understanding the ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have uncovered how to potentially control harmful insect populations by studying a "selfish gene" that manipulates inheritance The new research focuses on ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species—including plants, fungi, and even humans—are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called "selfish ...

From left to right, coauthors Jackson Ridges, Nitin Phadnis and Jackson Bladen reviewing an image of a heat-stressed Drosophila seminal vesicle (the sperm storage organ). The study is the first to ...