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 study shows that long-read sequencing has the potential to improve the rate of diagnosis while reducing the time to diagnosis from years to days -- in a single test and at a much lower cost.

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

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

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 ...

Researchers at Hokkaido University have developed a new computational tool to help evolutionary biologists analyze complex genetic data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of species and the ...