Scientists from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Las Vegas, Nevada (UNLV) have uncovered a ...

Human beings don’t have a thick coat of fur like many other mammals do. Scientists think it has to do with something else ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, struck an alarmist tone about new findings that ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or disconnected? The problem may not be you. It may be the world you’re living in. Here's why ...

A Series in The Lancet Neurology provides state-of-the-art reviews covering clinical and scientific evidence on the four most common genetic subtypes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), caused by ...

However, the evidence supporting some of the conclusions remains incomplete, and further mechanistic studies are needed to clarify how miR-283 affects normal aging and influences exercise adaptations.

Research dispels popular misconceptions about large feet, from height predictions to dating advantages, revealing the truth ...

Though genetic material does not preserve well in arid climates, which is why much about ancient human populations in the Sahara remains a mystery, there was enough fragmented DNA to give insights ...

Colossal also birthed two litters of red wolves from three different genetic founder lines ... linked to features including differences in human height and the diverse beak shapes among finch ...