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

If you look up invasive species in a textbook, there's a good chance you'll find a picture of a brown tree snake. Native to ...

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

All of which is useful at a population level, as it is helpful for public-health planning. How useful they are for ...

Fish surveys carried out over six years at Luoma Lake in eastern China have recorded one of the clearest signs yet that ...

Take a blood sample from someone in the dead of winter. Take another in midsummer. Same person, same laboratory. And yet, at the level of gene activity, the molecular picture can look surprisingly ...

Sensing that breast cancer ran in certain families, the geneticist Mary-Claire King and a team of researchers at UC Berkeley ...

A large genetic analysis suggests that Phelan-McDermid syndrome may affect far more people than previously recognized.

Routine milk spectra could help identify dairy cows with greater heat resilience while revealing the biology behind how ...

SCN2A-related developmental epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) is a rare, severe form of childhood epilepsy and one of the most ...

Forest bathing sounds like an ancient tradition, but it is actually younger than the personal computer. The practice known as ...

A Wellcome Sanger Institute study found that rare genetic variants have a stronger impact on cognition in early childhood, ...