New research co-authored by an Oklahoma Museum of Natural History curator and her graduate student is offering fresh insight ...

For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including ...

A new study uses age-stratified allele frequencies to map ongoing natural selection and rare pathogenic variants.

When a handful of brown tree snakes landed in Guam in the 1950s, likely having hitchhiked aboard cargo ships, no one could have predicted their far-reaching effects on local ecosystems. In fact, they ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 16 studies involving nearly 2 million participants found that higher red meat intake ...

New structural variation sequencing reads long stretches of fetal DNA to pinpoint duplications, flips, and rearrangements, ...

This article describes the limits of visual appraisal, where the eye can pick up a structural problem but we can't tell how ...

The team analyzed whole‑genome sequence data from 570 Schistosoma mansoni parasites collected across Africa and the Caribbean ...

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

Research co-authored by an Oklahoma Museum of Natural History curator, her graduate student and an international team of ...

Biologists say a genetic quirk on the X chromosome may give some women a fourth color channel — but does that really mean 100 ...