Understanding genetics can help explain differences in disease susceptibility across populations, informing medical research ...

From the Black Death to the COVID-19 pandemic, combining the genetic data of a pathogen with historical records, ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

Conservation genomics is a bold new tool for protecting life on earth, but it will take all of us to slow the extinction ...

Advanced genetic tools have helped to reveal the importance of the dark genome, or DNA that does not code for protein, but ...

A major genetic analysis of over 3,200 Japanese individuals reveals a more complex ancestry than previously thought, ...

Scientists have uncovered more than 1,700 new proteins that could have implications for human diseases, including cancer. Mostly very small, these proteins were found in what's called the "dark ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have uncovered a crucial trick used by enteroviruses—the group behind diseases like polio, myocarditis, encephalitis, and even the common ...

American scientists have discovered a hidden molecular mechanism that helps enteroviruses multiply in the human body. This ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

The APOE2 gene variant protects against Alzheimer's by enhancing DNA repair and preventing neuronal senescence.