In a new study of women in post-menopause, white women with higher genetic risk of obesity regained weight about two times ...

A new study suggests that genetic makeup accounts for about 55% of human lifespan, far more than previously thought. Earlier research estimated heritability at 6–25%, but the latest findings ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

By the time modern humans began filtering into Europe around 45,000 years ago, the Neanderthals they encountered were already ...

A large international study suggests that a subset of people with Type 2 diabetes carry genetic variants that blunt the effectiveness of widely used GLP-1–based drugs, despite unexpectedly elevated ...

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on ...

Scientists at EPFL have developed CenSpark, a fluorescent probe that makes centrioles and cilia visible inside living cells, ...

“Aspirin is a drug that is readily available globally and extremely inexpensive compared to many modern cancer drugs, which ...

Scientists have long been puzzled by how maturing red blood cells manage to produce all the hemoglobin they need to carry ...

Researchers discovered that suppressing BMP signaling in astrocytes reduces seizures and restores brain balance in Fragile X syndrome models.

While you’d likely expect katydids to be leafy-green, seamlessly blending into their natural environment, some of these ...