Whereas most of the cells in a healthy animal’s body get along by following the same set of genetic rules, cancer cells ...

For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...

What is the human exposome? A massive study quantifying 115,000 associations shows that cumulative environmental exposures rival genetics in predicting disease.

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a ...

Analysis of hundreds of environmental exposures and health outcomes quantifies influence of nongenetic factors ...

Researchers conducted one of the largest-yet studies examining links between environmental exposures and health outcomes.The research ...

For decades, scientists have assumed canine heartworms spread globally alongside modern dog movement, but new genomic research co-authored by researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary ...

Scientists have recently discovered a natural age counter in human DNA. This finding has reversed decades of study as we may ...

A fresh and important book reveals the messy reality of our ever-mutating cells – and why the quest to defeat ageing is ...

A Survival God for the Age of Abundance,” Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler explore what it means to be human in a world ...