Researchers at North Carolina State University have pinpointed the Andes Mountains as the birthplace of the infamous Irish ...

Imagine a world where the majestic woolly mammoth roams the Arctic tundra once again, thousands of years after its extinction ...

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Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between species.

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

There have been sci-fi movies over the years subjected to questioning over their accuracy, but NASA have described the one ...

A study of occupational status published in Nature Human Behavior identifies 106 genetic variants, the importance of the ...

A research team performed a large-scale genome analysis of Japanese and European populations and discovered gene regions (genetic polymorphisms) related to allergic sensitization. Some of these ...

Chornobyl's exclusion zone has become an unintended wildlife refuge. Populations of species like wolves, boars, and birds ...

Scientists conducted largest ever genetic analysis of geologically and ecologically diverse group of chimpanzees.