In most developing tissues, signals called morphogens act like lighthouses, guiding nearby cells toward their fate and ...

For example, the canine gene ADD2 was associated with fear of strangers, but in humans was related to depression. A key ...

Did you know that traits in animal species can re-appear in a new generation hundreds of years later? These ancient ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

EVE is a deep generative model combining evolutionary and human population data to estimate variant deleteriousness on a proteome-wide scale.

This study explains why helpful DNA changes appear often but rarely spread, because environments shift too fast for evolution ...

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

Researchers have created an artificial intelligence model that can identify which mutations in human proteins are most likely ...

"The findings are really striking – they provide strong evidence that humans and golden retrievers have shared genetic roots ...