An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

It seemed deeply unfair that in this era of precision medicine, where targeted therapies are the treatment of choice for ...

Companies now offer polygenic embryo selection to prospective parents undergoing IVF. But the technology is dangerously ...

People often remark that allergies run in their family, but the genetic causes have remained unclear. Previous food allergy genetic research has relied upon broad but surface-level methods called ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

The first large-scale genetic study of cancer in cats has highlighted the similarity between cancer driver genes in cats and ...

Scientists have created the most detailed maps yet of how genes control one another inside the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Using a powerful new AI-based system called SIGNET, the team ...

In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.

She had brown eyes and black hair. She was almost 5 feet, 7 inches tall and chewed tobacco. She was in her 20s, carried heavy loads with her left arm and had given birth. We don't know her name, but ...

Larvae of the silk moth tend to live longer lives if they have higher levels of an enzyme known as NAD+.

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

The findings come at a time when one in five Americans report that their diets are 'not very healthy' or 'not healthy at all.