Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

Kipekee, one of only two known spotless giraffes in the world and the only one in human care, died at age 2 at Brights Zoo in ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Greenland has changed quickly in the past 25 years. Along with new foods, jobs and habits has come a sharp rise in type 2 ...

Jeffrey Bourgeois will study role of human genes in inflammatory responses caused by Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria ...

Yesterday evening, a simple conversation about the Indian Constitution turned into a long debate at home. I was helping my ...

At the University of Oslo, psychologists and collaborators following Norwegian families identified a sizable group of children whose eating patterns centered on avoidant and restrictive intake and ...

An investigation into why blood doesn't always behave as doctors expect has revealed a super-rare mutation in an extremely ...

From age and sex to innate immune superpowers, there are several reasons why some people can fight off colds and flu more ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add ...

EVE is a deep generative model combining evolutionary and human population data to estimate variant deleteriousness on a proteome-wide scale.

Short social media break improves mental health. A new study has shown that ‘problematic’ social media use is related to poor ...