A man with genetic mutation that causes Alzheimer's to appear before age 50 remains cognitively fine in his mid 70s. Understanding why could lead to new treatments for the disease.

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion ...

For the first time, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers have studied how work, volunteering and leisure activities ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland likes the potential of newborn testing, but she says her Stamford, Connecticut, company is ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

A significant advancement in knowledge of the link between cognition and genetics has been made thanks to a study led by ...

The great Indian bustard is critically endangered, but the Indian government has found a clever way of breeding the species ...

Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic modifications.

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still carry the genetic fingerprint of that intermixing. Since then ...

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and at least a few that may be good for you Amber Dance, Knowable ...