A team of scientists led by Dr. Ole Andreassen of the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of California, San Diego, has found evidence for...
An international team of researchers from Singapore and the United Kingdom has identified an enzyme that regulates the production of sperm and egg cells...
A team of scientists led by Prof. Stacey Harmer of the University of California, Davis, has discovered how sunflowers use their circadian clock, acting...
According to an international team of scientists led by Dr. Nicholas Mundy at the University of Cambridge, a gene for red color vision that originated...
A team of researchers has identified 17 genetic variations associated with depression in individuals of European ancestry.
The team identified 17 new genetic...
New research is casting doubt on a widely held belief about how cells use DNA to make proteins.
DNA molecule. Image credit: Christoph Bock, Max Planck...
This false-color image shows Escherichia coli. Image credit: Geralt.
‘Superbug’ bacteria affect two million people and kill at least 23,000 Americans...
The genome of Neanderthals contained harmful gene variants that made them around 40 percent less reproductively fit than modern humans. And non-Africans...
A multinational team of researchers led by University College London (UCL) has found four genes that impact nose shape.
Image showing variation between...
In a paper published in the journal Genetics, scientists from the University of North Dakota and the University of Minnesota present multiple lines of...
In a large-scale international study, researchers have identified three genetic variants associated with subjective well-being (happiness), two variants...
An international team of researchers from Uppsala University and Princeton University has identified a specific gene that within a year helped spur a permanent...
Neanderthal Y-chromosome genes disappeared from the genome of modern humans long ago, suggests a new study published this week in the American Journal...
The genome of the Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla) has been sequenced at a high level of quality beginning to approach that of the...
Dr. David Reich from Harvard Medical School and his colleagues have produced a world map of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in 120 diverse populations....
The first gene identified for graying hair has been discovered by an international team of researchers.
At the top are shown drawings illustrating the...
Sea sponges appeared on our planet about 640 million years ago, much earlier than any other animal, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings...
A multinational group of researchers has found strong genetic evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and anatomically modern Homo sapiens...
