New twin‑study research finds that, after removing deaths from accidents and infections, genes account for about 50% of human ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones first emerged and became so diverse.

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

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to ...

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why African-American patients survive for half as long as their counterparts of European ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code. Andrzej ...

The blurred lines between conditions such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia may finally have a genetic explanation. A new study, applying advanced genomic statistical methods to data from over ...

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