Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Why city wildlife around the world act the same and what this behavioral shift means for conservation and human-animal ...

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 ...

Analysis of hundreds of environmental exposures and health outcomes quantifies influence of nongenetic factors ...

Two complementary genome-wide association studies provide new insights into how host genetics influence the human gut microbiome, identifying multiple reproducible genetic loci associated with ...

Koalas suffered a massive population decline that left them with dangerously low genetic diversity. However, new genomic research suggests their rapid rebound may be helping reverse some of that ...

To eat a sugar-filled diet, birds had to evolve some sweet genetic tricks. Birds that feed on nectar and fruits have important variants in genes that control metabolism, fat processing and even blood ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous ...

Small variations in DNA sequence can alter an organism’s response to the environment or susceptibility to disease. Interpreting the impact of genome sequence variation remains a research challenge.

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