Genetics

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A genetic mutation may have helped modern humans adapt to smoke exposure from fires and perhaps...

There is new evidence that the “mother’s curse” – the possibility that moms may transmit genes to their children that...

Female orgasm seems to be a happy afterthought of our evolutionary past when it helped stimulate ovulation, a new study...

A Japanese research team have applied a method used in human genetic analysis to rice and rapidly discovered four new...

Credit: Tomas Hasing ITHACA, NY– When gardeners look at a petunia, they see the vibrant and versatile blooms of the...

For a long time dismissed as “junk DNA”, we now know that also the regions between the genes fulfil vital...

While the latter half of the 20th century showed a widening gap between the more and less educated with respect...

In a White House ceremony May 19, President Barack Obama presented the National Medal of Science to Mary-Claire King, University...

Human malaria, uniquely transmitted by a handful of anopheline mosquitoes, continues to attack nearly 200 million people and claims the...

ITHACA, N.Y. – The human heart is a remarkable muscle, beating more than 2 billion times over the average life...

This news release is available in German. Our genetic material – our DNA – must be stable; so that it...

Researchers reporting in the American Journal of Human Genetics, published by Cell Press, have completed the first in-depth genetic analysis...

PHILADELPHIA–A new genetic clue discovered by a team co-led by a researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine at the...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) hijacks the host's fat metabolism for its own survival, growth, and transport in the human body....