New study suggests that settlement of the Pacific occurred in a migration process with what the authors call a series of ...

Jonathan, an estimated 194-year-old giant tortoise, retains unusually orderly DNA regulation in pathways linked to cellular maintenance. Genome and epigenome comparisons offer clues to extreme ...

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers say a decrease in glycosaminoglycan (GAG) molecules in joints separated human ...

Many insects see the world through hundreds of tiny lenses that are grouped together in a visual organ known as the compound ...

Florida has launched a newborn genomic screening pilot program designed to test babies for more than 900 genetic conditions, making it the first state-funded initiative of its kind in the nation.

Jonathan, a giant tortoise who has lived on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena for almost two centuries, could ...

The agency will spend $180 million over the next 2 to 3 years for gene sequencing of samples held in its repositories. The ...

She had just diagnosed our 11-year-old daughter, Maya, with Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome, a genetic condition so rare there ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

Population geneticist Sohini Ramachandran uses computational approaches and develops new techniques to explore human genetic variation and diversity.

If Interstellar kept you up, these 6 forgotten sci-fi gems will leave you emotionally unhinged by ideas bigger than the ...

This week, from life sciences to condensed matter physics and neuroscience, there was a notable shift from science that ...