This year is not a particularly white Christmas. Across the United States, families are gathering to enjoy a walk on a warm, ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

University of Central Florida researchers using genetic information say that, with intervention, depleted flamingo ...

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

A groundbreaking genetic study has revealed that Italians who reach 100 carry significantly more ancient Western hunter-gatherer DNA than their younger counterparts. The research, published in ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve, which connects the heart to the rest of the body. It affects millions of ...

Learn more about eLife assessments Blood flow to the brain is a sensitive marker of neuronal activity as well as of a number of diseases, including stroke, tumours and neurodegenerative conditions.

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants. It’s an unfathomable amount of data. Which leads us to another central ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...