As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

Blood samples from warm vs. cold Greenland bears reveal genetic patterns that could predict how polar bears respond to ...

For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate ...

New genetic research suggests centuries of human persecution may have selected for calmer behavior in Italy's rare Apennine ...

At the University of Oslo, psychologists and collaborators following Norwegian families identified a sizable group of children whose eating patterns centered on avoidant and restrictive intake and ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...

In this new study, a research group from the University of Zurich is using for the first time genetic evidence of historical mixing between populations to investigate the effects of contact on ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

Differences in treatment patterns, not genetics, appear to cause wide disparities in prostate cancer outcomes, according to the results of a new study. Prostate cancer, which affects 1 in 11 men aged ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...