The science of the little dog who could! Do you own a little dog that you love so much, and one day just wondered how your little dog became to be? Well, look no further because I sought out the answer to the question we were both craving to solve. Luckily our furry friends have DNA just like their human sidekicks. Within their DNA is a gene which codes a protein responsible for the different size growths between dog breeds. In 2007, Elaine Ostrander, a geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute, and senior author of the study’s paper, […]