Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

A new review of studies has found that taking Tylenol during pregnancy doesn’t increase the risk of autism, ADHD or ...

Our genomes are filled with errors that were once impossible to correct. But in CRISPR, we finally found an extraordinarily ...

Researchers who focus on one specialty are more likely to rise through the academic ranks, even though wicked societal ...

Following the surprising discovery that our genetic blueprint is much simpler than expected, we’ve rapidly learned that we ...

Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% ...

In a new study, we and an international team of scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

Every winter about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California's Año Nuevo State Park to fight, mate and give birth. The spectacle runs from mid-December ...

Sometimes, in genetics, two wrongs do make a right. A research team has recently shown that two harmful genetic variants, ...

The physical practices were designed to help the body move, release tension, and build enough steadiness and comfort to sit for meditation without pain or distraction. In the Yoga Sutras, yoga is ...

Data from a major U.S. clinical trial from the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has uncovered a genetic factor that ...