Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a ...
From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...
The DNA blame game: are we fated to follow our genetic destiny? - Will Rogers-Coltman meets Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioral geneticist asking difficult questions ...
What is the human exposome? A massive study quantifying 115,000 associations shows that cumulative environmental exposures rival genetics in predicting disease.
For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a ...
A woman who was born with a rare genetic condition is learning to love the white streak in her hair. While Alex Lightly used ...
Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...
Analysis of hundreds of environmental exposures and health outcomes quantifies influence of nongenetic factors ...
Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell genes for foraging, while farmers' olfactory receptors evolved alongside ...
More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions ...
For decades, scientists have assumed canine heartworms spread globally alongside modern dog movement, but new genomic research co-authored by researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary ...
Bar-Ilan University researchers use CRISPR tool to alter Enh13 switch controlling Sox9 gene, causing XX mice to develop as ...