This could have become more beneficial as we shifted from a hunter diet to a farmer diet, with more plants and grains.

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

SYNGAP1 encephalopathy is a rare genetic disorder for which there is no treatment. It causes epilepsy, intellectual ...

SYNGAP1 encephalopathy is a rare genetic disorder for which there is no treatment, causing epilepsy, intellectual disability, psychomotor delay and, frequently, autism.

Humans and the changes we’ve brought to cities have led to the survival of bolder animals, and those bolder animals pass on ...

There’s more history in your blood types than you think, and it didn’t begin with humans. Here’s what we know about them, ...

Africa’s largest elephant DNA study reveals growing genetic isolation as habitats shrink, raising urgent concerns for ...

For decades, the “classical view” of genetics has hewn closely to the original work of Austro-Hungarian biologist Gregor ...

A groundbreaking study in genetics education examines the relationship between the quality of genetics education and the ...

Why do brain disorders affect men and women differently? Researchers used RNA sequencing to identify 3,000 sex-biased genes ...

A study in Nature found a specific genetic variant that may boost the effectiveness of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like ...