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

A long‑overlooked stretch of the human genome appears to play a distinct role in shaping the social and stereotypic ...

For thousands of years, water in the high Andes carried a mortal hidden danger. The water gushing from streams and groundwater around the volcanic landscape looked clear enough. It came from streams ...

People who carry the APOE2 version of the apolipoprotein E gene are more likely to live to advanced age and are partly ...

A long-overlooked stretch of the human genome appears to play a distinct role in shaping the social and stereotypic ...

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 ...

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

A new study looks at the process of DNA methylation, in which chemical tags known as methyl groups turn genes on and off and ...

Biologists have long puzzled over why organisms with similar numbers of protein-coding genes can differ so dramatically in ...

Now we know that those who settled there were a hardy group that first had to survive in the Arctic Our ancestors may have learned to control fire 1.5 million years ago, which could explain how we cam ...

Different types of cell division failure shape whether duplicated cells survive, remain stable, or lead to cancer.

Public health experts estimate that more than 200 million people worldwide are exposed to arsenic through contaminated ...