Genetic records from more than 20,000 children in the United States, collected to understand how young brains grow and how ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

Is Obesity Genetic or Environmental? Get All the Details This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key ...

The research, published in Science, argues that the true genetic contribution to the variation in human lifespan has been masked. A genetic contribution of 55% aligns far more closely with what has ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit ...

When two defective gene variants combine, normal protein function can sometimes be restored.