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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Children born with a specific form of genetic deafness now have a treatment option that did not exist six weeks ago. On April ...

The so-called serial killer gene is not one gene - it's a mix of genetics, brain structure, and environment. The post The ...

For hundreds of years, a remarkable group of women on South Korea’s Jeju Island has made a living by diving deep into the ...

A newly formed link between flower size and flowering time may be constraining how morning glories respond to environmental ...