Learn more about the gene linked to the evolutionary loss of human tails, and how, in rare cases, some people are still born ...

A new study from the University of Cambridge found that Labradors and humans share a key gene linked to obesity. The DENND1B gene influences hunger signals in the brain, making those with the variant ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead to ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Humans carry genes that predispose us to atherosclerosis, the disease that causes heart attacks, because those same genes may have once helped ...

Scientists have discovered how adaptations in a single gene helped the plague survive for hundreds of years. Responsible for the deadliest pandemic in history, the bacterium that causes the plague, ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

Using genomic and transcriptional data has greatly improved the understanding of multiple aspects of human physiology. A new paper in PNAS reports on molecular-level associations of co-occurring ...

Greenland has changed quickly in the past 25 years. Along with new foods, jobs and habits has come a sharp rise in type 2 diabetes and heart disease. For many people there, these illnesses feel recent ...

Sequencing nearly half a million genomes, researchers show that most additive genetic influences on height, lipids, and other complex traits are now directly measurable, while pinpointing ultra-rare ...

Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...