Decades-old air samples once collected for military surveillance have turned out to be an accidental time capsule of climate change. By extracting DNA from those vials, scientists have reconstructed ...

Before Todd Leach lost his father to a rare, aggressive form of stomach cancer, his dad gave him one last gift: a genetic ...

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

I WISH I could be there when Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson unwraps her Christmas prezzies. I sent her a drawing I ...

We unpack the complicated subject of dog breeding genetics and explore arguments against very selective breeding practices.

Black patients and patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods are dramatically under-represented in genetics ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...

Milk production has increased by an estimated 0.8% per year in the EU in the last decade according to a new report.

Results also indicate how these genetics might affect a person’s biology to increase their risk of different mental ...

Learn about Medicare and Medicaid fraud, key examples, and how these unethical practices affect taxpayers and healthcare ...

A large study of rats shows that genes shape the gut microbiome in two ways: directly, by influencing an individual’s own ...