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

Genes establish probabilities rather than certainties. The environment, parenting, and experiences influence how children's ...

A genetic deletion responsible for the rare “salmiak” pattern in cats has been identified, revealing new information about feline coloration.

New research suggests that lithium is depleted in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and is essential for normal brain ...

Researchers from Academia Sinica, Taiwan and the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany, have revealed how the ...

Wheat is one of the world's most important staple foods, especially in the form of bread. A joint study by the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems ...

"When we learn useful skills, institutions or technologies from each other, we are inheriting adaptive cultural practices", said Waring. Culture, he added, solves problems much more rapidly than ...

Using heart rate variability as a potential biomarker for diagnostic support and early screening of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder could eventually lead to faster, less costly assessments outside ...

Primary cilia play a powerful role in how cells sense their surroundings. They help guide embryo development and ensure ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in ...

Every era of biology has been defined by a tool: the microscope, the sequencer, CRISPR. Artificial intelligence is emerging ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...