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

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

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

A global genetics study of over 2.5 million people shows Type 2 diabetes is driven by tissue-specific biological processes ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine—including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians—evolved. In a paper ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

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 ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

Monash University researchers, in collaboration with Harvard University, have discovered how to permanently "switch off" ...

Ancestry-specific biomarkers, such as POLB, could reshape diagnostic and prognostic approaches in head and neck cancer. New ...

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