Jonathan, a giant tortoise believed to be 194 years old, is giving scientists new clues about how some animals manage to live ...

Archaeologists have recovered Neanderthal DNA from six hand-bone fragments found in Abauntz Cave, Navarre, in what ...

A gene variant called APOE4 is the biggest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Scientists are finally figuring out ...

A gene that is switched on in human brain cells has turned out to be a jumping gene that never fully gave up jumping. The gene, BC200, descends from a mobile piece of DNA, and researchers led by ...

New research, led by Penn State scientists, has identified a new role for a complex of proteins — CCR4-NOT — as a suppressor ...

Baylor Genetics, a leading diagnostic genomics partner offering a full spectrum of comprehensive genetic tests and diagnostic ...

While a mutant fungus in the real world might not be making humans violent and turning them against each other as in the ...

University of Kansas researchers reviewed ancient DNA and 23,000-year-old White Sands footprints to trace early human ...

The immortal jellyfish is capable of winding back its lifecycle to become young again. Scientists are unlocking its cellular secrets for new strategies to treat diseases of old age.

Humans walk upright, carry brains three times larger than those of our closest relatives, and possess slender, distinctly ...

The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in the closest evolutionary cousins of our species.

Autism is diagnosed far more often in boys than in girls, and the reason is still unclear. One possibility involves genetic ...