What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Ethical storytelling frameworks exist to protect people from being misrepresented, tokenized and/or exploited. They’re not ...

Williams explained that – in most people – sex chromosomes, other genes, sexual organs, internal organs and external organs ...

GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland explains how her company screens babies’ DNA for mutations that cause thousands of treatable disorders.

The Mediterranean diet is linked to reduced Alzheimer’s risk, particularly in individuals with the highest risk for the disease.

A WOMAN has revealed people think she should never have children because of the ”below average genetics” she’s hiding ...

New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country's rare birds. The goal may not be possible, unless new technology can be developed to do it.

For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that germs are the underlying cause of infectious diseases. Someone coughs ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The ...

But a new study suggests that these parallels are a bit of an accident, and digits come by re-deploying a genetic network that controls a completely different process: the formation of the cloaca, a ...

To make horses rideable during domestication, people may have inadvertently targeted a mutation in horses to strengthen their backs and their balance.