Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the explanation often lies in your DNA, or more precisely, your gene types.

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

There may be an evolutionary thread linking big brains, long lifespans and immune-system genes in mammals, a new study finds. An organism’s lifespan depends partly on its genes, but scientists have ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

Four headshots, one of each of the successful ERCC grant winners These highly competitive grants had over 3,000 applicants ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified issues with most genomic sequence data for the Neisseria gonorrhoeae ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

The developmental period is a critical window during which environmental cues interact with the genome to shape lifelong trajectories of health and disease.