In cooperative societies – like elephants or whales – natural selection seems to favour genetic mechanisms that suppress cancer, study says.

Disease development is often shaped by genetics, with how much or how little a gene is expressed influencing disease risk.

Tommy Zeigler, Florida's longest-serving death row inmate, is back in court for an evidentiary hearing that could lead to a new trial or his release, based on new DNA evidence.

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 ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

New genetic test results by local environmental groups show that horses are one of the contributing factors to Palma Sola Bay ...

The field of genetic epidemiology has been revolutionized by recent advancements in next-generation sequencing technologies, as well as the development of ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

When it came time to start a family, Sarah Elizabeth Orlando, 33, knew she would go about it differently. Before she was born, an in-utero amniocentesis had confirmed she carried the gene for fragile ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. In 2024 Stephen Rich and his colleagues ...