Researchers have conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date linking plasma proteins to genetic variation in ...

From eye color to whether cilantro tastes like soap, genetic variability influences many factors in a person’s life. These inherited differences can also determine a person’s risk of developing a ...

The present theory offers a unified solution to three closely related evolutionary problems. (1) Why does an evolving population explore only a small fraction of the accessible pathways in genotype ...

Researchers found a genetic variant that appears to protect against the development of CHIP, a phenomenon that can lead to ...

There is no such thing as one Indigenous Australian people but rather a continent of extraordinarily genetically-diverse, separate communities with greater genetic variability than between people of ...

Arun Durvasula has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Science. Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she told me, “Genetics ...

Gene editing may hold the key to rescuing endangered species—not just by preserving them, but by restoring their lost genetic diversity using DNA from museum specimens and related species. Scientists ...