The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Autism has at least four subtypes, an analysis of more than 5,000 children’s genes, traits and developmental trajectories has ...

Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely ...

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

Screen-centric lifestyles may be influencing human evolution through impacts on cognition, sleep, reproduction, and the microbiome, reshaping natural selection.

A breakthrough in genetic editing allows IVF parents to select traits for their embryo. But some experts are warning this new ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Using brain gene expression maps from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, the researchers tested the degree to which Alzheimer’s risk genes explain the patterns of both actual and residual tau. This allowed ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.