Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Research by German scientists into the genetic makeup of European potato varieties has revealed that, despite significant ...

A new global study has found genetic changes that may make individuals with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure ...

Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, finds a new global study.

Humans have come a long way as the most dominant species on Earth, largely due to sophisticated adaptations, ingenuity, and ...

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...

A new multicenter study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute-funded Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) ...

A naturally occurring genetic variation significantly boosts resistance to a devastating disease that threatens European sea bass populations, scientists have found, according to the Roslin Institute.

BACKGROUND: Shared genetic and lifestyle risk factors may underlie the development of both coronary artery disease (CAD) and dementia. We examined whether an increased genetic risk for CAD is ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the movement of genetic material from one organism to another. In this article, we will discuss what HGT is, how it is used in research, how to detect it and the ...

Caffeine is the main active ingredient associated with coffee and may very well be the reason most people drink coffee in the first place. But there are more than a thousand bioactive compounds found ...

Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, involves obtaining DNA from a sample of cells in your body to identify specific genes, chromosomes, or proteins, including those that are faulty (known as ...