In the frozen reaches of Greenland, a humble dog sits beneath a sky smeared with pale sun. Its breath makes tiny clouds in the cold air. Its paws, broad and calloused, press into the snow. This is the ...

Researchers sequenced the knotty sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing a missing gene that many other animals ...

The gene therapy regimen seems to be working wonders, including restoring nearly all hearing to a seven-year-old patient ...

Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...

DNA is the building block of life — it can tell us a lot about both who we are, and who we may become. DNA is also, ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

During his 36-year career at Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He co-founded the field of paleovirology and considers ...

When Daniel Shapiro launched his ceramics studio in his old hometown, he didn’t realize he was following in his ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Many conservationists dedicated to protecting the endangered Andean cat have never seen one in the wild, with the species ...

But now, a new study has found that genetics determines how much babies cry. That means we may not have much control over it, ...

An estimated 25 to 30 million Americans live with a rare disease, most of which are genetic. The Sunshine Genetics Act ...