Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

When scientists sequenced the genome of this elusive deep-sea creature, they found clues about how squids and octopuses ...

DNA of ‘vampire squid from hell’ helps explain how octopuses evolved - With its unusual combination of features, the deep sea ...

Crucially, these findings contradict a long-standing theory that domestication in Europe occurred much earlier – some 6,000 ...

Researchers analyzed the genomes and behavioral profiles of 1,300 golden retrievers and found that several behavioral traits—such as trainability, fear of strangers, and aggression toward other ...

Boston Children's Hospital, along with Broad Clinical Labs and Roche Sequencing Solutions, has demonstrated that rapid genomic sequencing and interpretation are achievable in a matter of hours. This ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...