Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into ...

Drug resistance has accelerated in recent years with the emergence of deadly bacteria and “superbugs.” In response to this ...

A recent study published in Science challenged this trend, revising the estimate upward to about 50 percent by accounting for ...

In A Nutshell Ancient origins: Genes linked to dyslexia date back over 430 million years to early vertebrates: they’re not recent evolutionary innovations Recycled brain circuits: Humans don’t have ...

Geneticists have uncovered a faint but persistent signal in modern DNA that points to a vanished branch of humanity, a “ghost” lineage that left no confirmed skeletons or skulls behind. Instead of ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle. In recent years, scientists studying human DNA identified genetic signals ...

Despite major advances in genetic testing for breast cancer risk prediction, death rates remain disproportionately high among ...

DNA from 3,700-year-old bones in a mountain cave in Calabria reveals a family relationship so rare it stands out even in deep ...

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for regenerative medicine – which is aimed at repairing the body by developing ...