It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the people who show the classical manifestation of the disease have a pair of ...

A forensic technology that has set wrongfully convicted murderers free and jailed famed serial killers just landed its first ...

Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, ...

A sequencing study conducted in Uganda reveals that one in four people has been exposed to a deadly hemorrhagic virus.

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 ...

A new study links telomere length genetics to IPF risk, showing how rare variants and polygenic scores may guide future screening and precision care.

Medical gas plasma can render adenoviruses harmless within a short period of time. This has been demonstrated by a recent ...

A new study published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science offers a nuanced look at how genetic risk for depression interacts with social and economic life circumstances to influence ...

Sometimes, a creature unknown to science hides in plain sight without anyone realizing its significance. In the case of one ...

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...

A DNA identification has been made in a homicide case that began nearly 40 years ago with the disappearance of a Birmingham ...

For 50 years, scientists at the San Diego Zoo have been collecting and storing cells from rare and endangered species in its Frozen Zoo with an eye to the future. The future is here. The San Diego Zoo ...